Farhan Saeed
Farhan Saeed Butt is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, actor, music video director, and entrepreneur. Saeed is the former lead vocalist of the Pakistani band Jal and is the owner of the restaurant "Cafe Rock" in Lahore. He sings in Urdu as well as in Punjabi. Saeed began acting in 2014, and gained recognition for his role in Hum TV's serial "Udaari" (2016) and for his leading role in another Hum TV serial "Suno Chanda" (2018). Personal life. Farhan Saeed Butt was born into a Punjabi Kashmiri family. Both his parents are practising doctors. A music fan from  the very start, he used to listen to Vital Signs and Junoon and centred his music around pop, and at times folk. In his teens, he took A-Level from Keynesian Institute of Management and Sciences (KIMS) and then enrolled for Computer Sciences at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, after which he discovered his future band members in Atif Aslam and Goher Mumtaz. The band took off and became famous across Asia. In 2011, reports broke out that he had parted his ways from Jal, which left his fans stunned. He pursued a solo career and became regular  to feature in Bollywood. Saeed opened "Cafe Rock" restaurant at Hussain Chowk, situated off the M. M. Alam Road, Gulberg, Lahore. The restaurant's theme is in a similar vein to that of the "Hard Rock Cafes", providing underground bands and young aspiring artists with a platform to project themselves and perform in front of an audience. He married Urwa Hocane on 16 December 2016. Career. Solo music career. In September 2011, in an exclusive interview with "The Express Tribune", Saeed shocked the fans claiming that he has left Jal to pursue a solo career despite Goher Mumtaz offering him  to continue his solo career while being a part of Jal. On 8 September 2011, Saeed's departure was confirmed by Jal's guitarist Goher Mumtaz who wished him luck for his solo career. He did a collab with Aima Baig, Adnan Qazi and Bilal Saeed for his super hit song ""Na cher malangaan nu"". His recent song was with Hania Aamir for Asim Jofa that was directed by Qasim Ali Mureed. He made his Bollywood-singing breakthrough in 2014, by contributing a song to Vikram Bhatt's "Creature 3D". The song, "Naam-e-Wafa", is a romantic-duet with  Indian vocalist Tulsi Kumar as the co-singer and Mithoon as the composer. Acting career. Saeed started his acting career by debuting in a leading role in the 2014 Hum TV drama serial "De Ijazat Jo Tu" alongside Sohai Ali Abro, Saba Hameed and Javaid Sheikh. He then played the lead role as Mohid Shuja in ARY Digital's "Mere Ajnabi" serv go alongside Urwa Hocane who was the female lead. He has also played a lead role of Arsh in the drama "Udaari" as a lawyer along with female lead Urwa. Apart from acting in the drama, Saeed has  also collaborated with Hadiqa Kiani for the OST that has topped music charts all over Pakistan. Always in 2016, he also played the lead role again in ARY Digital's "Teri Chah Mein", alongside Maria Wasti and Saboor Ali, and Hum TV's "Sila" alongside Ainy Jaffri. In 2018 he grabbed the leading role of Arsal Jamshed Ali (Arsal) in Hum TV's critically and commercially superhit drama serial "Suno Chanda", with Iqra Aziz as the leading female role, and due to the critical success of the show, a season 2 was immediately announced by the producers. He reprised his  role as Arsal Jamshed Ali in the second installment of Suno Chanda alongside Iqra Aziz in 2019. The season was also a hit and a critical success. Saeed is recently shooting for two upcoming projects with Hania Amir: One is webseries produced and directed by Wajahat Rauf and the other is a drama, again with Amir, and directed by Qasim Ali Mureed.. Right now, He is working as male lead as "Hamza" in "Mere Humsafar" opposite female lead Hania Amir. He had the leading role in "Karachi Se Lahore 3" with Kubra Khan as co-star, the third installment of  Wajahat Rauf's successful series including the box-office hits "Karachi Se Lahore" and "Lahore Se Aagey", and which would have been his feature film debut, but he had to quit the project because of music tours and concerts he was already committed to. In early 2019 it was announced that he'll get his first lead role in a movie in "Tich Button", a rom-com co-produced by his wife Urwa Hocane under their joint new production company "Shooting Star Studio". As a director. He turned to direction with the 2018 music video of "O Jaana" from the  singer-songwriter Hamza Malik, starring actress Iqra Aziz and featuring musicians Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Sahir Ali Bagga.