Well done, Mahira Khan, because you did what you thought was the right thing to do. According to an Indian newspaper, Mahira K was supposed to do a scene in her upcoming Indian film Raees with another actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui which the actress found uncomfortable doing. She immediately told the director she couldn’t do it, and the director accepted her refusal without trying to persuade her otherwise. Whoever thought that the girl is a gullible one and would get influenced by the razzle-dazzle of Bollywood … think again!

Published in Dawn, Sunday Magazine, January 17th, 2016