Mahira reveals why she wasn't fearful to work with a 20-year old boy

Mahira Khan trusted the 20-year-old director for making the film 'Superstar'. Finally, the project came to life and is out in the U.K. and U.S. cinemas.

London: Four years ago, when Mahira Khan comitted to Azeem Sami Khan's project 'Superstar', many from Pakistan film industry got stunned.
She trusted the composer and screenwriter's vision when he was in his early twenties after he pitched her the story by playing her each song in the film.

"Maybe I shouldn't think like this, but just as an artist or as someone who, as an actor, I want to do what I want to do. It doesn't matter if it's a 20-year-old or a 50-year-old or you know. Age doesn't define what a person can do, at least in my eyes. Also obviously in fact when I said yes to the film he was directing it. So I was actually ready to be directed by him," she said.
"I don't know why I was not fearful of putting my trust or putting all my eggs in one basket of a very young boy."

The film ended up being directed by veteran filmmaker Mohammed Ehteshamuddin and co-starring an unknown actor, Bilal Ashraf, who had been working as a hedge fund manager in New York.

This time, Khan had to put her trust in her producer Momina Duraid that she had found the right guy.

"She was like, 'I'm telling you guys to look.' I said 'We haven't even worked together, we've not been in a picture together.' I didn't know him at all. But the minute we got into the frame we stood in a frame together, I remember everybody on set it was like 'This looks nice, this looks good,'" she said.

Khan plays theatre actress Noor who has dreams of stardom. When fate puts her in the path of Sameer (Ashraf) sparks fly.

The two leads had to undergo some theatre training but they didn't have the luxury of rehearsing the multiple song and dance numbers very much.

"I think for most of the songs we rehearsed only for a day day and a half," said Ashraf. "For the theatre part of the film, for that part, I think both of us me and Mahira we were in theatrical training with quite a few students and graduates of theatre for about twenty-five days and then just on set. But it was very high pressure, very quick."

'Superstar' is out in the U.K. and U.S. cinemas.

From APTN inputs.