Career
He started his acting career in 1993, working in stage plays. He was offered minor roles in TV plays. Breakthrough came when he was offered Muuno Bhai’s Zaroorat. It was his first play. After that he produced and acted in Ashiana and worked with senior directors and actors. Although he didn’t get expected monetary returns, he got a lot of fame from that as an actor. Ashiana was his first production and turned out to be successful. He says people still recognize him as Saif from Ashiana.
Kashif owns a production academy, Ashiana Friends, and his aim is to bring up talented youngsters into the field of production. When asked why he opened the production academy. He states:
Our youth has a lot of hidden talent in them but they don’t get opportunities to utilize their talent. When I came into production, I had to face a lot of problems and I don’t want youth to suffer from all this.
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