When ‘Raees’ Actress Mahira Khan Thought Her Career Is Over

Mumbai: Leading Pakistani actress Mahira Khan recently opened up about the viral photos of her smoking with Ranbir Kapoor in New York and how the controversy affected her.

Talking about the relentless trolling she faced during that time, Mahira told BBC Asian Network, “It’s been a crazy ride. My audience has travelled this journey with me. The divorce, having a baby and my baby being along in this journey with me, being single for so long, those photos coming out, a ban somewhere else in another country… it has just been insane. Those were tough times and amazing times but there also have been moments that have been tougher but I have chosen not to share them.”

Revealing that there was a time when she thought that her career is over, the ‘Raees’ actress said, “When the photos came out there was an article called ‘The Little White Dress’ that was published in BBC and I failed to see the brilliance of that article at that time. In fact, I think I may have. I remember reading it and thinking, ‘Is my career over?’ In that article, it was written that ‘here is a woman who has achieved this kind of success that no one in Pakistan has achieved, all the endorsements and all that, and now it is all gone. What is going to happen to her?’ I read it and I was like ‘Damn.’ But I told myself, ‘Are you mad? This is going to end,’ maybe it was the 14-year-old Mahira that told me. But I won’t lie that that time was very tough. I wouldn’t get out of the bed, I was crying daily, it affected my professional and personal life.”

Mahira’s first Bollywood film was ‘Raees’, in which she shared screen with Bollywood King Shah Rukh Khan.

On the work front, Mahira was last seen in ‘The Legend of Maula Jatt’ opposite Fawad Khan.

The actress tied the knot with Salim Karim in 2023.