Junaid khan actor biography clint

Being over 40 doesn’t seem to be a major issue for actors these days; some feel it’s an advantage!

They say ‘Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional’, but had the person who said that seen some of the current Pakistani actors, he or she might have changed it to simply ‘Growing old is optional!’. Thanks to modern-day fitness regimes, special diets and some help from Mother Nature, many celebrities in their forties are giving tough competition to young folks in the same business.

Be it the wonderful Ahsan Khan who seemed to defy age in Fraud, or the youthful Fawad Khan who doesn’t look a day older than 30, the majority of the A-list actors in Pakistan have celebrated their 40^th birthday. While that might be troublesome for actresses in the country or in the neighboring country, it isn’t a problem for the leading men, a few of whom believe that crossing 40 is good for them.

Gone are the days when actors were cast because of their looks (and age, of course!) and once you crossed forty, you were either cast as the older brother, the father, or someone in an unrelated supporting role. Talented actors who played leading men in their heydays including Farhan Ali Agha, Shabbir Jan, and more recently Sohail Sameer were relegated to character roles, d

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