Actor Mahira Khan, who was last seen in 'Legend of Maula Jatt', recalls the time when she was suggested to go under the knife because of her nose. But, Mahira says she is ‘glad’ that she never got a nose job.
Recently, while interacting with Anupama Chopra for her podcast, Mahira spoke about how she doesn’t like the idea of beauty that is being sold through social media. She said, “I look at Instagram or social media and I keep thinking, it’s crazy. How far down we’ve gone into this sort of idea of what beauty is, and how perfect one has to be. I don’t think it’s cool and I don’t think that that’s something we should propagate at all.”
She recalled the time when was told that she looks fine only when she is captured from certain camera angles. Mahira shared, “I have come from a place when there were no filters, there was just the basic thing of angles. People used to tell me, ‘Iss angle mein na naak badi lagti hai (Your nose looks bigger from this angle) I would be like, what? It used to affect me.”
She added, “There was a time when it was put into my head that you should be shot from a particular angle and there should be no low angles.” Despite this, Mahira decided to not get a nose job done and she is “glad that I didn’t do it.”
The actor believes that one’s craft should be such that after a point, the audience doesn’t pay attention to how one looks. She opined, “As an actor, it’s a fail on my part if people will look at me and say, ‘yaar iski naak moti lag rahi hai’ (Her nose looks big). After a while, they should forget about my nose, my cheeks, my hair.”
Mahira also shared that even Shah Rukh Khan was told to fix his nose and she is glad that he also didn’t do anything about it.
