while most took the actor to be a bengali shafiqu rahiman is actually a malayalali from kalamassery a banker by profession who used work in dubai he left the job to pursue his passion of acting shafiqu talks about his journey struggles and upcoming projectshow did amar akbar anthony aaa happeni had worked in a couple of movies in 20092010 as hero but they bombed in the box office around that time i met nadirshah at a wedding and i requested him for a role in any upcoming movie for a long time nothing happened and i continued to work in dubai in a banks business loans division with a handsome salaryone day i got a call from nadirshahs team asking me to join the shoot i took 25 days leave and joined the shoot in thailand but it stretched to 60 days i had to resign my job and turn fulltime actor even during the shooting most thought i was a bengaliwhat are your upcoming projectsmy upcoming movie is mrityunjayam a short movie directed by laljit payyannur makeup artiste turned director in this movie i am playing a military officer the theme is about how we treat our military personnel while they are alive and after they are no more when i was returning after the shoot in jaipur some military men asked me in the train which battalion i belonged to that was really a thrilling experience for methe other movie i am doing is ma nishads kinar with pasupathi and jayaprada in leading roles i play a character of an mla with negative shades another project is a mammootty starrer which is being shot in malayalam tamil and telugu i am doing a police officer along with mammootty and its a positive characteranother tamil movie in which i am doing a fulllength villain role is expected to roll out in january next year as i am a part of ccl as a fast bowler no movies for me for the next one month the hero also belongs to the ccl team so theres no problem its a comedy thriller and i am playing the heroines fianceafter aaa amar akbar anthony why were you not seen in full length rolesactually nothing interesting came up except welcome to central jail in which i played a police officer with negative shades in tiyaan i played the henchman of the main villain played by ravi singh but it didnt do too well in the box office my personal commitments also came in the way of taking up more movies next year i have couple of projects in hand in malayalam and tamil