Pakistani actress Mahira Khan enjoys a massive fan following in India. Her Bollywood film Raees with Shah Rukh Khan earned the Humsafar actress a lot of praise. However, she went through a difficult phase when a photo of her smoking a cigarette with Ranbir Kapoor went viral.
In the photo, she was seen in a white backless dress with a cigarette in her hand. Ranbir, who stood in front of her in casuals, was also seen smoking. The actress received a lot of flak from her outfit as well. Talking about the incident, Mahira recalled, “When the photos came out there was an article called ‘The Little White Dress’ that was published in BBC and I failed to see the brilliance of that article at that time. In fact, I think I may have. I remember reading it and thinking, ‘Is my career over?’ In that article, it was written that ‘here is a woman who has achieved this kind of success that no one in Pakistan has achieved, all the endorsements and all that, and now it is all gone. What is going to happen to her?’ I read it and I was like ‘Damn.'”
She continued, “But I told myself, ‘Are you mad? This is going to end,’ maybe it was the 14-year-old Mahira that told me. But I won’t lie that that time was very tough. I wouldn’t get out of bed, I was crying daily, it affected my professional and personal life. Lots happened on my personal side.”