Manu Sharma in No One Killed Jessica, Murari in Raanjhanaa, Arif in Shahid or Chintu Singh in Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub has played all these roles and more with aplomb, and his performance in the latest release Article 15 is also winning him praise.

The actor says that more often than not, his character gets cut down at the last moment from films, and that, he feels, is unfair to any artiste. "Though I choose films in which I have a character that is substantial and creates an impact on the main narrative, most of the time our characters get chopped in the middle of shooting. That is why there are times when our on-screen characters look like props. So when people say that the scenario is changing (for actors like me), at times I question, 'Are they, really?'," Zeeshan told IANS in an interview.