The celebrity couple Salman Saqib Sheikh who is also known as Mani and wife Hira Mani appeared on a talk show and opened up about their acting career and fame.
Hira recalled how she stepped into showbiz, she shared, “When I married Mani, he told me there’s a show on Saturdays and Sundays, and when I asked him how much I would get paid for it and he told me, I picked up my kid and said ‘let’s go’. I was never good at physics, chemistry, or maths so I used to worry about how I would earn a decent living and that first TV check felt so good and reassuring.”
Mani explained, “Hira always had it in her to become an actor, that’s something we always knew. It just had to click. She struggled for good three years before she was recognised as a serious actor but I must say she didn’t struggle as much as other newcomers do.”
Mani then revealed how actors including Ayesha Khan refused to work with Hira because of him. He said, “A lot of actors refused to work with Hira, and I was the reason behind their decision.”
The Do Bol star shared that Mani used to call out actors and expose them. She asserted, “What Mani used to do with other celebrities, proper channels exist for that now. He used to do the job of the internet and Instagram back then.”
Hira then shared how she feels about fame, “My fame as an actor is fairly recent. I don’t know if it’s mostly positive or negative, but people tell me I’m famous so I’ll believe it.”
She added, I became famous the day I married Mani. I was already ‘Mani ki biwi’, so I didn’t get anything special from dramas. I was already a hit.”
