Mahira Khan dances her heart out at a friend's Mehendi ceremony

Mahira Khan recently attended her close friend's Mehendi ceremony and the actor let her hair down as she danced her heart out. One of the songs Mahira danced to was Shilpa Shetty's iconic dance track from Shool, Main Aiyi Hoon UP Bihar Lootne.

By Karishma Shetty

Updated on Mar 29, 2018 | 09:15 PM IST | 7.1M

Mahira Khan made a splash in Bollywood when she starred opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Raees. However, after the Uri Attacks, a permanent ban was issued on Pakistani artists from starring in Indian movies and hence, we did not get to see more of Mahira's acting talent.

The actor recently attended a close friend's Mehendi ceremony and was amongst those who performed during the event. Looking gorgeous in a mint green lehenga with a matching blouse and dupatta draped as a saree, Mahira let her hair down and danced her heart out much to the excitement of the crowd present at the venue. One of the songs that Mahira shook a leg to was Shilpa Shetty's iconic dance number from Shool, Main Aiyi Hoon UP Bihar Lootne.

Watch the video below:

This post is somewhat an emotional summary and very close to my heart.. Many of you didn’t know what was happening with me, I wouldn’t blame you I didn’t understand what had happened with me till recently.. 3 years ago, I started lose control over my body. I had Trigeminal Nueralgia, after a series of procedures it got under control. Thought that was the last of my worries. Not long after that my lower part of the body mainly my hip and lower back started to give away. I was going through these unexplainable excruciating pain, that had no diagnosis, 1 MRI to another and juggling like a ball between the best doctors this country had to offer no one had an explanation to these pains. I was unable to walk so I started limping my left leg. Since I have been a workaholic for the past 10 years, working is what I knew best. I stopped taking medication that slowed me down. And slowing down meant I was a ZOMBIE. I was taking every medication that pharma had to offer. Out of them steroids were the real killer. Which meant I had to be on anti depressants too. Decided to go cold turkey because I couldn’t let my work suffer. The only thing that kept me going was work. And that too became my healths downfall. That limp eventually led me on the wheelchair for 8 months. Now my battle was not only at work but inside me. My mind. I couldn’t let that go out of my control. There were some very very dark days for me. In order to win the battle I had to SURRENDER first. Surrender to everything that didn’t make sense, surrender to what the reality was, surrender to my negative thoughts in order to rise from it. I still didn’t have a diagnosis and Now I had to fight the biggest fight of my life with myself FOR myself. I have AUTO-IMMUNE DEGENERATION. There is no cure for my hip joint but my spine is manageable This post is an appreciation to how far I’ve come. From a wheel chair to a stick to dancing. As long as my good days are more than the bad ones I’m winning each moment. I couldn’t have gone through this without my main man @nadirzia, my family Tj Mama @majamshed @mjamshed @mahamj Lastly the person I need to thank after God is MYSELF. I couldn’t have done it without ME.

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At a recent interview, while talking about Bollywood, Mahira had said, "Bollywood was never really the aim actually. I mean sure you could argue that I could have done more films there, for sure I could have. But right after Raees, I had already started working on Verna, even before all of this happened. My focus was always Pakistan."

Mahira also spoke candidly with a leading British daily about the Me Too campaign that has taken the entire world by storm. Mahira had told the daily, "Like every woman, I do have a #MeToo story; but if somebody wants to share something personal, they should do it when they want to, not because there is a movement or someone else is talking about it."