Saba Hameed has range as an actor. She’s one of the most recognisable faces on Pakistani television, partly because of just how many projects she’s a part of.
Take, for example, the ARY Digital show Bas Tera Saath Ho. The show’s been running for 28 episodes so far and Hameed is playing the wife of the male lead’s uncle (Faran Tahir). A more recent project she’s doing is ARY’s Dar-e-Nijaat where she plays the mother of the female lead’s dad (also Tahir). Wait…what?
Yeah, we’re not kidding and we’re definitely not alone in thinking it’s a quite weird. In a reel posted on Monday, content creator K Khan asked the team behind Dar-e-Nijaat which angle they looked at Hameed from to think she was even remotely fit to play Tahir’s mum, especially when she’s playing his spouse in a show that airs on the same channel.
In the comment section, actor Zhalay Sarhadi said only women seem to age in Pakistani society, as men never really stop being boys.
“Hence our industry keeps on submitting to this cultural and generational brainwashing. All over the world, it’s changing, just not in this part of the planet.”
