Mahira Khan recalls getting 'scary' tweets, suffering from backlash after Shah Rukh Khan's Raees.
Mahira Khan is one of the Pakistani actresses who enjoys a huge fan following in India too. The actress made her Bollywood debut with Shah Rukh Khan in Raees. Recently, the actress recalled facing backlash for her role in the movie and revealed that she battled depression.
In a recent conversation with FWhy Podcast, Mahira Khan opened up on the 2016 Uri attack, after which Pakistani actors were banned from working in Bollywood and said, It was unexpected. I’d finished the film, it was going just fine. Then suddenly this attack happens, and politically, everything gets… It’s always political, it’s always political. With India, it’s always political. But the fact that it would get this messy…,”
She added, “Constant tweets, constant… In fact, I would get calls and very scary ones. The only thing I wanted was, okay fine, I can’t go to India to promote it, I can’t enjoy this, but I hope it releases in my country. Because I knew that people would rush to the cinemas to watch it, he (Shah Rukh Khan) loved it here. That was heartbreaking. It brought on a very… The anxiety that I’ve always had inside me, the depression, it came to the surface.”
Raees was released in 2017 and at the same time, her photo with Ranbir Kapoor smoking went viral on social media. Recalling the backlash she got, the actress said, “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 Khan further added that she has been on antidepressants for the past 6-7 years and when she tried leaving that in the middle, she went into a ‘very dark place’. The actress said she has been 'in and out of hospitals trying to get help'.
`Meanwhile, on the work front, Fawad Khan and Mahira Khan will work together once again in a new series. They will co-star in Netflix's first Pakistani-themed original series, which will be an adaptation of the bestselling novel Jo Bachay Hain Sang Samait Lo.
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