Bismil is trending these days and as can be expected Hareem Farooq has gotten appreciation for her convincing performance as Masooma while she is also getting a lot of hate for how evil her character is. Hareem Farooq is a film and television actor and producer and she works very selectively in scripts that she feels strongly for.

Hareem Farooq sat for an interview with BBC Urdu and addressed the criticism she has gotten for her weight gain during Bismil. She said that she knew that she was going through something in life and she had gained weight. She actually wanted to take 2 months to lose it but then she realized that hers is a normal body type which Pakistani women have and she went on and shot for the drama which is doing well now. She revealed that she has psoriasis and she still has marks on her face.

Here is what she said:

Hareem Farooq also spoke about how she loved working with the living legends Savera Nadeem and Nauman Ijaz. She added that she learnt so much from the two of them.

Here is what Hareem Farooq shared: