Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub has always gravitated towards characters with edges, not heroes, not villains, but people. In the upcoming web series Real Kashmir Football Club , he steps into the skin of Sohail Mir, a man who transforms Kashmir’s love for football into a story of grit and community spirit. Inspired by the rise of Kashmir’s first professional football club, the series follows how an unlikely dream, built from scratch, became a symbol of hope.

For Ayyub, signing on took barely a heartbeat. "As soon as I heard the idea, I was in, principally," he says. "I told them that I would love to be a part of this story that you want to tell, especially because it's based on a real club. Then I read the script, and I liked that also."

Although he never played it himself, Ayyub has been a co

See Full Page