Mahira Khan. Photograph: Screengrab/CNN
Display icon Mahira Khan has mirrored on her long-running artistic bond with Fawad Khan, calling their partnership a mixture of respect, craft and quiet friendship as she appeared again on what she described as an “superb” and “healthful” 2025 throughout a New Yr look on CNN.
The ‘Humsafar’ star, who additionally shared the display screen with Fawad within the blockbuster ‘The Legend of Maula Jutt’, advised host Kristie Lu Stout that audiences had showered the pair with affection for greater than a decade, and their current movie ‘Neelofar’ was supposed partly as a gesture of because of loyal followers.
“It has been a blessing that we have now been given a lot love and respect and adoration collectively,” she mentioned, admitting the duo have in all probability been “stingy” about working collectively regardless of public demand. “With ‘Neelofar’ we have been capable of give again to our followers. It’s virtually a thank-you notice to them.”
Mahira, 41, mentioned the actual glue behind their onscreen chemistry is a grounded camaraderie and belief in one another’s course of, although their performing kinds differ. “I’m a spontaneous actor; he has one other sort of technique, and we each perceive one another’s beats very effectively. And I feel that comes with expertise but in addition friendship,” she mentioned.
The yr simply gone introduced two main cinema releases for Mahira — ‘Neelofar’ and ‘Love Guru’ — one thing she confessed she had not anticipated. She described the workload and viewers response as overwhelming in the very best method, saying 2025 had been “tremendous particular”.
Followers noticed her interview whereas ringing within the New Yr, prompting Mahira to thank them on-line for his or her heat. Posting a clip on Instagram, she wrote that listening to from viewers world wide made the second much more memorable as 2026 started.
Requested whether or not one other joint undertaking with Fawad is on the horizon, Mahira joked that it is likely to be a while but, insisting the pair would solely reunite onscreen for one thing daring and weird — maybe, she urged, a narrative within the spirit of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ or ‘Marriage Story’.
She additionally revealed that 2026 appears like a pure pause to reassess her path, with a return to tv now firmly in her plans. The transfer, she admitted, brings a flicker of nerves but in addition the joys of taking artistic dangers once more.
Away from the highlight, Mahira spoke with uncommon candour about her scholar years in California. Working two jobs, driving buses and serving to assist her brother whereas learning, she mentioned, carried an enduring affect on her outlook as a lady from a well-off Pakistani household immediately navigating American life.
Even now, she revisits these recollections together with her son throughout summer season journeys to the US, recounting tales from retailed shifts — together with a stint at Brookstone — and days spent juggling lessons, work and household commitments, experiences she believes grounded her way more deeply than fame ever may.
