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New Delhi:

Pakistani actress Mahira Khan, in a current interview, opened up about her psychological well being wrestle and being recognized with manic despair. Talking to FWhy Podcast, the Raees actor mentioned that her psychological well being aggravated after getting into Bollywood with the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Raees, and the 2017 incident, the place footage of her smoking with actor Ranbir Kapoor went viral. Mahira Khan made her Bollywood debut with Raees alongside Shah Rukh Khan in 2017, the identical yr the smoking footage with Ranbir Kapoor went viral. Reflecting on the backlash she confronted, Mahira mentioned, “That (backlash) brought out the anxiety and depression hidden inside me. That was a hard time for me. I felt attacked. The constant backlash… You are getting mean tweets, and comments on their channels (Indian channels). That was a time my faith broke and I developed severe anxiety to the point that one day I had a panic attack and fainted. That was the first time I went to therapy. But that didn’t work out, as I went to several therapists… that year was rough… I couldn’t sleep, my hands used to shake.”

Mahira additionally mentioned concerning the 2016 Uri assault, after which Pakistani actors had been banned from working in Bollywood.

Mahira mentioned, “I had finished the film (Raees) and everything was going fine and then suddenly this attack (Uri attack) happens. Politically everything gets messed up. With India, it is always political. But the fact that it could get this messy! I was not scared, but I was threatened. Constant tweets I would get calls, and very scary ones. The only thing I wanted was that ‘Okay fine I can’t go to India to promote it (Raees), but I hope it releases in my country because I knew people would rush to watch it as he (Shah Rukh Khan) is loved here (in Pakistan).”

On the work entrance, Pakistani heartthrobs Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Sanam Saeed are set to headline Netflix’s first Pakistan-themed authentic. The sequence is an official adaptation of Farhat Ishtiaq’s bestselling 2013 Urdu-language novel of the identical identify. The story revolves round Sikandar, a Harvard regulation scholar, who retains himself aloof after an incident takes a toll on his life. Sikandar meets Liza, an artist with a troubled previous, in Italy.

On the work entrance, Mahira Khan has rather a lot on her plate together with Madiha Imam.