\u201cMy mum makes the best sheer khurma,\u201d says an elated Gauahar Khan, all set to celebrate Eid with sister Nigaar Khan and her close friends. \u201cBut this year, mum is in Dubai with my other sisters, so I\u2019ll be making my own biryani and sheer khurma. I hope it turns out to be good,\u201d laughs the actor.<\/p>\n
Eid means \u201ceverything\u201d to her. \u201cIt\u2019s the one day I look forward to because it comes after a whole month of testing yourself whether it comes to food, endurance, how much you can give in charity, how much you can behave yourself and abstain from the wrong things in life, so that you can continue that for the rest of the year. So, it\u2019s actually a celebration of self worth and how much you can do to be a better version of you for the sake of Allah,\u201d says Gauahar.<\/p>\n
The excitement in the air around this time every year is very different from anything else. \u201cIt\u2019s a good, happy time. We kind of stay awake almost the entire previous night \u2014 cooking and applying mehendi. And then early morning, we clean the house, get ready and cook the delicacies,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Going down memory lane, back to her childhood, the actor recalls how Eid meant an elaborate celebration because hers was a big family five siblings and parents. \u201cBuying a new wallet\u201d on this day was a yearly ritual for Gauahar. \u201cI\u2019d only collect my Eidi in that, so whether it was \u20b910 or \u20b9100 or \u20b9500, I needed to carry that in nothing but my new wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked how celebrations have changed over the years, the actor says, \u201cAs I see what\u2019s happening in the world around, people are enjoying more of it as a social gathering, but for us, it\u2019s just about ibadaat [prayers], it\u2019s more about faith and then spreading joy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cMy mum makes the best sheer khurma,\u201d says an elated Gauahar Khan, all set to celebrate Eid with sister Nigaar Khan and her close friends. \u201cBut this year, mum is in Dubai with my other sisters, so I\u2019ll be making my own biryani and sheer khurma. I hope it turns out to be good,\u201d laughs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34320,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34318\/revisions\/34320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}