Mehwish Hayat Signs the Deal To Play Benazir Bhutto In a Biopic

It’s official!

It’s official! Mehwish Hayat is playing Benazir Bhutto in the prime minister’s biopic. The starlet has signed the deal for the role!

There has long been word going around that the Actor-in-Law starlet will be playing the role of Pakistan’s first female prime minister in a biopic film. Now she has signed the deal, making it official.


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National Award-winning actress Mehwish Hayat affirmed that she has signed the deal in her appearance on Geo’s ‘Aik Din Geo Ke Sath‘. She shared that the project is under development and given the magnitude of the project it’ll take time.

“InshAllah. It is a huge subject and a very complicated one, her story is so inspirational. [I think] that our current generation and the one that is to come, needs to see her contributions, struggles, progress, her life.”

 

When the idea was first posed, the Jawani Phir Nahi Aani was trolled. Even Benazir’s daughter, Bakhtawar, slammed the idea stating that no consent was sought from the family for the project.

Previously, the wink girl Priya Prakash’s debut film ‘Sridevi House‘ was shelved after a trailer release why Bonney Kapoor and the family took legal action. The director shared how the family was not approached for consent to make a Sridevi biopic for his late wife.


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On the work front, Mehwish will be seen next in Humayun Saeed’s London Nahi Jaunga.