Apologising for missing her big day, the
Mere Paas Tum Ho star recorded a video message for his firstborn. I m sorry I couldn t be there but 16, wow, you re a young woman now! he exclaimed, in awe of how time has flown. Writing a letter alongside the video, he shared words of wisdom on the special occasion. Dear Maryam jaan, he began. Sixteen is a big number. Mere two years short of, as you millennials say, adulting. What seemed like light years away is right at your doorstep, replete with responsibilities and novelties. It is only a matter of time before you cease to exist as a teenager and transcend into an unknown space where it’d be expected of you to be make wise and right choices, where you may be weighed down by the demands of the world, where reality and how you’ve viewed your life till now will often be blurred, where life would be at times overwhelming, where you’d juggle between success and failure, illusion and realism, obscure and clear.
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Sit in a room with Humayun Saeed and Adnan Siddiqui together and you’ll often find it hard to wedge a word in. The conversation is free-flowing, ricocheting between serious issues to wild anecdotes, peppered with loud bouts of laughter.
There are so many mutual acquaintances that they keep referring to and so many memories that they share, through the eras of Pakistani TV history, as heroes who have rivaled each other for roles and friends who have co-starred in multiple major hits.