Asim Raza’s film Ho Mann Jahaan has a few guest appearances, including that of Fawad Khan. But none of them steal a scene like Sangeeta, the Pakistani film star who, ever since she became a director, seldom gives time to acting.

Her chitchat in the movie with her son and daughter-in-law in a scene shot at a railway station is quite a sight. It also provides the necessary desi touch to the otherwise urban story.

Sangeeta is fluent and confident in the sequence and makes her fans wish that she should act more often. But I suspect she won’t.

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, January 10th, 2016