Mahira Khan is indeed overrated. - Page 9

Originally posted by: BlackStar.

Well see how true this is in the coming future.

Originally posted by: starstruckk

by then some of these brilliant actresses may not even be around and Mahira may just have learned the art of acting.

you don't see a Maat or Durre Shahwar everyday.

This is something Momina Duraid wrote at the time of DES/BQ being on air.. Someone asked her a question abt it.. Her reply seemed pretty vague to me. She couldn't justify herself.


There is one question regarding HUM TV and MD Productions that has baffled a lot of us. Why don't you and HUM TV treat your projects and teams equally? Some serials are overly hyped like MeJ and others are not given proper coverage and attention like DeS and Bilquees Kore. Although they are more popular and relateble than MeJ. DeS has ended recently but we didn't hear a word from you or your team about the director and his crew. MeJ ended yesterday and you are here thanking everyone. Don't you think this kind of unfair treatment is highly demoralizing for those people who are working day in day out to make your channel the most viewed one?

and here was MD's answer right on the same thread:
It good to see that all of you voice your opinions and questions openly. Bilquis kaur has just started and has been promoted equally as mata e Jaan. I would definitely thank our viewers there once it is over and was planning to do so on durreshehwar as that has only ended last week.Was a little confused though as this particular thank you note should be coming from both producers together as I would not want to take the complete ownership of the project as it Is a shared ownership. With durreshehwars promotion you r right to a certain extent. That was my first co production and the technical team was not mine. I was involved in the creatives only. We did not have an ost as we had to drop it last minute due to its similarity to an Indian number. Some of The artists refused to come and promote the serial due to their commitments. In short when it's my own production completely then the team is completely selected and lead by me and play is being promoted in a certain way. In a joint production who is arranging what becomes a question and especially when it's your first.We are learning everyday and will try not to repeat problems faced in our first co production. Shehr e zaat is my second co production and we have started in time and full blast it's promotion. So we are learning. With no artist availability and no ost, promotion of durreshehwar might be relatively less but promo frequency that was under our control is always the same from hum tv as a rule. You have to understand that from a channels point of view all prime time slots are equally important and one never intentionally promotes less or more. Sometimes conditions become such that one does not have a choice. To me all plays are like babies as I am with my projects like a mother from the first word of the script to the last scene edited.
And you can never be unfair to what you have so lovingly created with the grace of God.

Wow, there's quite a bit of disagreement here, isn't there?

Judging strictly on acting I think Saba ought to have won hands down. She was amazing in Maat. Sawera Nadeem wasn't too behind. She put life into Bari Aapa. Sanam Baloch is a great actress but Roshan Sitara wasn't one of her strong ones.

Mahira winning for shehr e zaat is a joke. If it was humsafar I could understand but NOT shehr e zaat. Her acting wasn't really up to scratch. Lets just take a moment to remember the crying lol

Disappointing to say the least😒

Originally posted by: summerchild

Wow, there's quite a bit of disagreement here, isn't there?

Alright, my opinion on this matter, and believe me, I'm being pretty unbiased here, is that Mahira, as both Khirad and Falak, has connected with the audience on a relatively higher scale, and that's not to say that the rest hadn't, but let's face it, the fan following for both SZ and HS was way higher than it was for any of the other shows. And also, you've got to realize that people don't judge a show/actress based on how well they act, if they had, I don't think Meri Ladli and the likes would've been so famous. It's judged on the connection that the audience has had with it, and genuinely that the biggest decider.

And, as the award itself says, it's for 'Popular Choice' and um, wasn't that a given already? :l Her characters have made her pretty famous.

While yeah, okay, Mahira's got a long way to go in terms of her acting, but she's by no means overrated. She's doing two shows a year! If you want to see overrated, please talk about Mawra Hocane, Ayeza Khan and the likes. Sanam, while genuinely a great actress, picks the same kinds of roles for herself, and when she tried to do something bubbly (AA, KPKPBT) she was pretty terrible at those, too, so please, save the whole "Mahira was so bad in the first half of SZ" debate.

I wouldn't have minded if Saba/Aamina won the award, but then again, their characters in Maat were too black and white and I couldn't even relate to one bit, so I can see where the difference comes in.

So, no, I don't think it's that Mahira Khan's overrated. I just think she's hit it off well with the kind of start she's made, and a few of you lot are quite biased and hate her for whatever reason you have, but I'm pretty sure that just two shows doesn't judge a person's overall capability/ overrated-ness.

This isn't to offend anyone, guys. It's just my thoughts.

Originally posted by: cutestar

Judging strictly on acting I think Saba ought to have won hands down. She was amazing in Maat. Sawera Nadeem wasn't too behind. She put life into Bari Aapa. Sanam Baloch is a great actress but Roshan Sitara wasn't one of her strong ones.

Mahira winning for shehr e zaat is a joke. If it was humsafar I could understand but NOT shehr e zaat. Her acting wasn't really up to scratch. Lets just take a moment to remember the crying lol

Disappointing to say the least😒

Falak's character was easy for the audience to connect to? Really?

Originally posted by: _QueenofHearts_

Falak's character was easy for the audience to connect to? Really?

Maybe the last 3 or 4 episodes, but the first half of the drama tbh I didn't even understand her character but maybe that was just me

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Now let me provide my unbiased opinion. When Mahira was a VJ I in fact did watch her and I liked her then. I love Humsafar too but fact is Mahira would have been nowhere had it not been for Fawad. She is basically riding on the success of Humsafar and the Asher-Khirad couple and that is it. None of this is on her own merit because at this time she is just a mediocre actress, awards in my opinion are a long shot.

I attempted to watch SeZ but after a few episodes I turned the show off simply because of Mahira and her annoying acting. Honestly, I just couldn't handle her and she ruined the show for me. I know others who felt the same way and only praised the writer, her dialogues and Samina Pirzada. Falak's character was not suited for her so how she managed to bag the award for that specific character is beyond me. Maybe she improved in the latter half of the show but whatever I saw just got on my nerves.

The award was popular choice which I guess is the only way she would have received an award because the same fans were probably constantly voting for her which is unfair. The Asher-Khirad fans are pretty emotional when it comes to the couple and the actors playing the characters. I will blame Hum for this screw up since they allowed multiple voting and did not have critics choice.

Is there something more at play here considering that Fawad didn't get a nomination while Mahira did. They seem to have a major thing for her.

As can be seen above Falak is one character I could not connect with, I dunno anyone who did. Maybe I would have connected better if the character was being played by a more capable actress (which is what the role required). I wanted to wring Falak's neck, seriously who behaves like that? While Khirad, I liked at most times but yet again another character I couldn't connect with.As an example, characters like Sanam's Kashaf right now are much more relatable.

@ Umz..truer words have never been spoken here. 😆