Results Ready: 18.25% voted for Imran Abbas as their next “Male Super Star”

Almost two months back from now, 20th May to be exact, Galaxy Lollywood started a voting campaign on website in order to get an idea that who people think from the new lot of actors, has the ability to become the next big thing of Pakistani cinema. The massive amount of votes that this voting campaign received proved the fact that majority of the people are now fed-up of watching same three to four actors again and again in every movie and now have a demand to watch something new and fresh which can equally entertain them.

As the voting process has come to an end, its time to unveil the results but before this we would like to tell you that our main focus in this article will be on the top five actors who got highest number of votes amongst others in the list.

So below is the list, showing you the names of all sixteen actors who were part of the voting list. The list is basically presented in descending order and on the right side of each name there is a percentage given which shows the weight of each actor according to his votes in comparison with others in the list, and on the left side of names, a standing or rank is given suggesting you where actually a particular actor stands.

Q: Which two of them you think have the potential to become the next superstar of Pakistan Film Industry?

To some the list might have given a little shock as its bit funny too that three of the top five artists having most number votes are more known for their singing activities and in fact Atif Aslam who is on 5th position in the list with 9.48% votes has not even got his first acting project (forthcoming film Bol) released yet, before which the acting skills of him cannot be fully tested but still if people have voted for him and Galaxy Lollywood respects their choice as we believe that people are the best judges.

Just before Atif Aslam, we have got another singer turned actor ‘Fawad Khan’, who is equally popular for his acting and singing and now holds a very strong position in the drama industry of the country. But it was not until 2007 when Pakistan’s legendary director Shoaib Mansoor gave him a strong role in his Blockbuster hit Khuda Key Liye and from then onwards he has been part of some of the very popular TV dramas of the country and even Shaan Shahid who is currently the ruling actor of country’s film industry praised his work and stated him as the future of Pak film industry. He got 10.91% votes out of the total which makes him stand on the 4th position in the list, but it would be something interesting for you to know that Fawad ruled the second position in the list for about one and half month since the poll started but then lost his position to the hands of his singing colleague Ali Zafar, about whom we will discuss later in the article.

On third position we have one of the most versatile actors that the drama industry of our country currently has, yes, we are talking about none other than Mohib Mirza, who got this position with 12.09% votes but an interesting fact about his position is that he was initially floating on 5th and 6th position in the list but as the second half of the last voting month started, his position changed dramatically and he jumped up to the third position by beating another very talented & versatile actor ‘Fahad Mustafa’, who finally settled on the 6th place with 8.06% votes.

Another interesting fact about Mohib and his votes is that, maximum number of comments on campaign’s introductory article are about him and were mostly posted on the second last day of whole voting period (19th May).

On second position we have got an artist who is truly a multi-talented person, he is a singer, painter, model, actor and has tasted almost each and every form of art. Yes, currently it could be no one but Ali Zafar. Zafar who made his acting debut with Bollywood comedy film Tere Bin Laden got second highest number of votes in this 60 day long poll and finally landed on second position after having a stay on almost each position except the first one. It’s appropriate to mention here that Ali was one of the two artists who got the first ever vote in this particular poll, while the other one was seasoned actor/director Javed Sheikh’s son ‘Shehzad Sheikh’.

Leaving each and every name in the list behind, actor/model Imran Abbas got the first place with the help of a massive voting from his fans which accounts for 18.25% of the total votes. Unlike anyone else in the list Imran throughout the voting period held his top position firmly and even at first was topping the poll with a clear majority of almost 30% votes but the position was greatly damaged in last two days of voting because of the massive voting for Mohib Mirza by his fans.

This voting campaign was truly a learning experience for Galaxy Lollywood and after getting the final results we realised that including the names of some of the very new actors in the industry such as Naveed Raza, Furqan Qureshi, Shehroz Sabzwari and Bazil Siddiqui in the list against some of the very popular artists of this showbiz world was surely a mistake and after this we have decided that whenever in future any such thing will be organised on our website, only the artists sharing almost same amount of calibre, experience and fame will be included, whereas public opinion and suggestion regarding the list will also be given preference, this will not only make the competition more competitive and interesting but will also decrease the voting difference.

Apart from all this, its important for us to appreciate the effort of all the voters and supporters of this activity, people here not just voted for a particular actor but they also had some very strong reasons behind their choice and they expressed it all in the comments and other feedback material that we were receiving throughout the polling period. Pictures below are the screen shots of three of the best comments made by people regarding their choice and this will also clear the point that we just made few lines before.

But apart from these people, there were many others who constantly were sending us the names of actors like Faysal Qureshi and Ijaz Aslam to be included in the list, though we respect their suggestions but people should also understand the basic theory behind such an activity. The question we asked was about finding the next super star for the film industry and when we say ‘next super star’, then it means we are focusing more on the fresh blood or those people having a specific amount of working experience, abilities and a particular age where a person could still be considered as [new] to the industry. Actors like Ijaz Aslam and Faisal Qureshi are no doubt very good actors but they already have crossed a particular limit after which one cannot be considered as new to the showbiz world.

As we are now moving towards the conclusion of this article, we just want to say that this was the first step of GL in order to make the future of Pakistani cinema better and we want to thank all the people who helped us in this cause by fully participating in the polling activity and we would surely like you to show the same support and attitude in future too.

Note: These results are only based on a specific amount of public votes that we received on this website and can surely differ with the opinion of the whole country.