Mahira Khan’s film Raees, with superstar Shah Rukh Khan, released last year.
The film unfortunately faced a lot of trouble because of the nationality of Mahira, who is a Pakistani. Around the time the film released, the tension between the two countries grew fierce after firing and killing of soldiers at one of the borders.
“At that time I was angry. I was sad and angry and there were moments of disappointment and just hurt, you know. Now I’ve come to a place where I believe that anger doesn’t really make me a better actor. It doesn’t do anything for me as a person, so I’ve let go of that, because at that time I was in the mix of it,” said Mahira at HARDtalk on BBC World news
“Bollywood was never really the aim actually. I mean sure you could argue that I could have done more films there, for sure I could have. But right after Raees, I had already started working on (Pakistani film) ‘Verna’, even before all of this happened. My focus was always Pakistan,” she continued talking about why it didn’t affect her as much as it should have.
Isn’t her mind and spirit strong and extremely inspiring? We hope artists like her and so many more can work in Indian films and vice versa and the two countries can resolve into a state of peace.