Danish Hasan

Early life and background

Hasan said he grew up in Saudi Arabia and started his schooling there. His early classes were at a Bangladeshi school, and he later attended a merged international school. He studied until the eighth grade and then moved to Karachi. [1]

Hasan said he is the middle child of four, and that everybody in his family is earning, all four of them. His mother is an artist, and his elder brother is an illustrator, animator and game developer. He also described his brother as an up-and-coming DP who works on digital series. His sister is a doctor. [1]

Hasan said he and his mother are close. He also said he loved cars and was a gear head as a boy. [1]

Education

Hasan completed his O levels and A levels at a school in Karachi. He said that a boy is typically expected to study engineering, and he went into an engineering university. [1]

Hasan said university did not work for him. He dropped out in the last year of his degree. He said it was the eighth semester, with about six to seven courses to go, and that his university years took five years because he did not graduate in the fourth year. [1]

He described colleges as a social experience and said the friendships he made at university were the main thing he took from it. He said he communicated and mixed with many different kinds of people who came from less privileged backgrounds. He said the biggest struggle in leaving university was worrying what people would think. [1]

Early career

Hasan said he has no set path to make money in life. He said he went online and found a website where he could do graphic design, and that he learned Illustrator and earned $400 within two months. He said graphic design did not work well for him because it felt limited, and that he needed something more complex to represent his vision. [1]

He said he had a cousin who was into film, did a few projects with them and started doing documentary work. He said one documentary was the first he had ever done. He also said a film had won an Oscar, but that he knew his looked better, at least. [1]

Hasan said he was already working as a freelancer and reaching out to corporates. He said it was him solo, like a free bird, and that many people connected him to other people. He documented a prostate cancer awareness bike ride that is held every year, and said he would treat his videos of the event as short films, artistic pieces. He said a mutual friend showed one of his videos to another person. [1]

Bros Meet the World

Hasan said that as soon as they came back, they decided to start something, and that something was Bros Meet the World. He said Bros Meet the World ran for about three years and is now dormant. He said the channel was not creatively fulfilling, and that they stopped because the channel no longer worked for them individually. [1]

Hasan said Bros took up much of his time, so his own work became a second priority. He started his own channel while Bros Meet the World was slowing down, and then started another channel. [1]

Solo work and YouTube

Hasan said he had already registered his own production company, and that he got a studio space. He said he already had a fairly successful channel. He said he is now a full-time YouTube content creator for the first time. [1]

He said he could not call himself a director a year or two years ago. He said he had a lot of experience before he started making this content, and that this is why his first video is the way it is. [1]

Hasan said editing and filming a video takes him about a week, but that his videos usually take a month because of his other work. His goal is one video a week at a similar aesthetic and production quality. He has a Patreon where he plans to post micro content. He said he writes, shoots and figures out his videos as he goes. [1]

Views

Hasan said anger at proving people wrong was the biggest fuel in his life, and that he has since overcome that anger. He said he learned that it is okay to fail, and that he has had 20,000 failures as well as successes. He said he is spending every day figuring things out and still feels there is a lot for him to explore individually. [1]

Hasan said that locally Mooroo popped up, and Irfan Junejo popped up soon after. He said he met Irfan Junejo early, while shooting a video that featured Irfan, and that he has followed Irfan since that shoot. [1]

He said the best way to do it is to imitate, and called it the best form of flattery. He said creators do not target audiences; they make content and find where it lands. [1]

Hasan said authenticity on camera is the one thing creators should not hold back on, and said that in a recent video he stammered. He said he would become a robot without enough time for the making of his videos. He said food, entertainment and prank content can be great but leave no lasting mark. [1]

Hasan said he cannot see Pakistan in 2050 clearly. He said he hopes Pakistan becomes less aggressive, more inclusive and more accepting, and said he does not want to talk about Pakistan and wants to talk about the world. He said Pakistan is a big part of who he is. [1]

Bike accident and recovery

Hasan said he was in a bike accident in which another rider came into his lane. He said it was his third accident in Karachi on a bike, and that he had fallen twice on a bike before. He said he did not wear a full-face helmet. [1]

Hasan said he was about 80 percent recovered and still limping. He said he decided to speak to his audience about the accident. He said he took a four-month break from work, and that he has been taking things slowly for the last three or four months. [1]

Personal life

Hasan said he had just turned 34. He said that for the longest time he went with what another person was going with, because he came from a low-confidence, low-self-esteem place. He also said he encouraged another person who wanted to start his own channel to do it. [1]

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Frequently asked questions

References

1. Why Danish Hasan dropped out in his final semester . Thought Behind Things , 2021-10-06.