Forever young: Refusing to age

Mahnoor Baloch’s holiday pictures take internet by storm


Our Correspondent July 19, 2016
Mahnoor turned 46 only a few days ago. PHOTO: PUBLICITY

KARACHI: According to Hindu mythology, achieving immortality was essential for both the deities and the demons. After negotiations, they decided to join forces and churn the oceans to create amritam (elixir of life) or what the Sikhs call amrit. Once that was done, the deities tricked the demons and consumed the whole of it and this led to the initiation of a series of celestial wars between them.

Earthly beings, on the other hand, could achieve immortality only by consuming the amrita, reaching heavens upon death or through self-actualisation. Whatever the case may be with Pakistani actor-model Mahnoor Baloch, she sure is an anomaly.

The 46-year-old’s Instagram is loaded with pictures from her recent holiday and they will certainly make you gasp for air.

Mahnoor made her acting debut back in 1993 (you would be 23 right now if you were born that year). How she has managed to not age at all in this time that has seen trends, people and governments come and go is something that needs to be answered.

If there’s anyone in this world who can sing Hafeez Jalandhari’s Abhi To Main Jawan Hoon, popularised by the very elegant Malika Pukhraj, with complete confidence, it is Mahnoor.

On the Pakistani film front, she was last seen in the 2013 movie Main Hoon Shahid Afridi. The same year she made her Hollywood debut with Torn.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20th, 2016.

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COMMENTS (2)

Haji Atiya | 7 years ago | Reply @Rahul: Probably ET; they also have roots leading to the Chosen People.
Rahul | 7 years ago | Reply The other day I read a news article about two dams in Pakistan being named Rama and Kansa, two popular characters from Hindu mythology. Today this article which surprisingly gives a correct version of the Hindu mythological anecdote of the famous Samudra Manthan. Are Pakistanis going back to their Hindu roots???
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