She touched the hearts of millions around the world by playing as the emotional Zainub in Shoaib Mansoor’s “Bol” last year and now it looks like that she has plans to catapult her career to a whole new level because Humaima Malick has just signed her very first Bollywood film, action-thriller Sher.
Humaima Malik’s acting in the movie “bol” was tremendous; She was entirely committed to her role; performing and giving everything she got in order to fulfil the expectations of Shoaib Mansoor, As far as her new role is concerned, she is to take on the same role as Shabana Azmi’s in Vinay Shukla’s Godmother.
The popular model-turned-actress has been on quite a role recently as it should be recalled that she made the Pakistani Film Industry proud by winning the Best Actor Female Award for her role in ‘Bol’ at this year’s London Asian Film Festival. Now, the rising starlet is set to take on the lead role in the upcoming Bollywood film Sher along with the big guns of the Bollywood world i.e. Sanjay Dutt, Paresh Rawal and Vivek Oberoi. It has been reported that the film is to be directed by Soham Shah (the director of Kaal and Luck), to be shot in Jaipur, Gujarat and Rajasthan and is definitely a high budget film.
On her role in the new Bollywood flick, Humaima has enthusiastically stated that,
“I feel I’m crossing the border with a role that echoes my earlier film. Like my character in Bol, here too, my character revolts against patriarchy. I am not just the male protagonist’s wife”. Sher is expected to be released at the end of this year.
