Mohib Mirza opens up about his relationship with Sanam Saeed
Mohib Mirza, an actor, is now prepared to discuss the challenges he overcame in both his personal and professional life to get to where he is today. For the Ishrat: Made in China actor, the new year is all about embracing love and not being afraid of it. In addition, Mohib Mirza opens up about his relationship with Sanam Saeed. He also explained what went wrong in his marriage to his ex-wife, actress Aamina Sheikh.
On Munib Nawaz’s podcast, an actor and Mohib’s boyhood buddy, they had an open discussion about life and love. The 43-year-old actor discussed how his fears about Aamina came to pass, saying that up until that point, they had been deeply in love.
“When I met Aamina, at that time, my focus was that she is the one. I was in love with her and so, we got married. We had a great partnership, we had a daughter, everything was how it’s supposed to be and then situations changed,” he said. Aamina and Mohib were married from 2005 till 2019.
“It was never even in my mind that we’d get separated later. There was never any fear. We became different people while learning and growing with our work. For example, if I’m working in Skardu for over 90 days, and I live a life differently and grow towards a different emotional and spiritual path and then I come home and realise that we’re now two different people,” he added stating that it was that realisation that the bond isn’t the same anymore that made them leave each other.
Mohib continued by saying that people often have two choices in such situations: either to stay in a loveless relationship, as do the majority of families in Pakistan or to quit it for their personal peace and the peace of those around them.
He chose the latter. “It was upsetting for our fans, some may even call it unfortunate but from my perspective, it was the best thing to do. I’m grateful for it,” he exclaimed.
About his relationship with his daughter, the actor stated that he hasn’t seen Meissa in 5 years. “It’s Aamina’s decision so it’s fine, I guess. It was the hardest, most difficult thing in my life but what I’ve learnt is that she’s a growing kid and I wouldn’t want her to go through what other couples are on social media right now,” he said.
While counting his blessings, Meissa tops the list and will always do, according to Mohib. “There’s some deep level of unmatched emotional, spiritual, physical joy in knowing that a human being is yours. My daughter’s birth was the happiest moment of my life,” he said.
Mohib then went on to talk about the “love of his life” now and how important it is for people to give love a chance again. “There’s nothing such as a mid-life crisis, its mid-life realisations. After all these years, I have only realised one thing and that’s happiness. Nothing else matters, only relationships and love,” he said adding that it takes time to find a partner again who not only appreciates your ideologies and work but also celebrates it alongside you.”
Without saying much about Sanam Saeed, his partner in life now, all Mohib said was, “Sanam means beloved and Mohib means a lover and rest is self-explanatory.” Upon some probing, he added that it was hard for both of them to trust each other again after all that they went through but they found each other and realised that being happy is still an option.
When asked why he didn’t continue with theater, Mohib, who got his start in performing arts with theater before moving on to sitcoms, hosting, and eventually filmmaking, responded, “I was the sole breadwinner of my family and after rehearsing for 2-3 months for a 7-day show, I’d get peanuts in return.”
He added, “Now I know I can host a few live shows, do corporate shows, manage finances that way. I’ve always been lucky in terms of roles, always gotten something that had the potential to make a mark. But you know how the whole world sends bills at the start of the month, my salary never came at the start of the month. So, freelancing and managing finances was the real struggle. Acting and finding a place in showbiz was never one.”
Mohib stated that while his shift from actor to the director was fantastic, he now knows “5000 ways on how to not make a film in Pakistan” in response to the box office failure of his film Ishrat: Made in China.
To conclude, the actor said that he is already working on his next script and will start shooting as soon as the “paperwork” is done.
