Actor Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub won the Best Asian Actor award for the journalism-thriller series Scoop at the Septimius Awards that were held on August 20 at the Tuschinski Theatre in Amsterdam.

Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub plays a gruff but empathetic newspaper editor, in muted shirts and a scruffy salt-and-pepper beard. “I grew it over time,” Zeeshan smiles. Karishma, a television star ...