Why did Mahira get poor reviews for Raees while Saba gets rave reviews

When Raees released Mahira got ignored or very poor reviews. That time the Pakistani media and her fans said that Indian critics are being biased due to politics. Here are a few examples:

Cause Mahira is a bad actress & Saba is a good actress. Simple.

Saba is fantastic actor and good talent gets appreciation everywhere

Why is fawad not getting roles when mahira and saba are 😆

BTW.. whatever happened to the ban on Pakistani actors working in India? 😕

Remove Mahira from Raees and it wont make any difference to the movie 😆

Originally posted by: Anachronist

Why is fawad not getting roles when mahira and saba are 😆

It's funny how big films like Raees and ADHM were bashed, even almost banned, for casting Pakistani actors. That too those actors were casted in those films before the so called ban was announced. But a comparatively small film like Hindi Medium releases much after the said ban without any noise or issues related to it's casting. And funny enough, considering that film has just released, there is a possibility that the actual casting was done after the ban was announced or at least they did have time available to them to change the casting (if they wanted to do so) after the ban was announced. But they did not. That just shows that bollywood insiders know that the casting issue hype was created to promote those big budget films and that issue was itself not really a big deal. Why would a small budget filmmaker bother to mess with all kinds of rowdy and criminal kind of political outfits by casting a Pakistani actor, if the issue was real?

Who is Saba and what movie she did!? It depends on the role and screen time, it is not like both were playing the same characters in the same movie

Originally posted by: grounder

It's funny how big films like Raees and ADHM were bashed, even almost banned, for casting Pakistani actors. That too those actors were casted in those films before the so called ban was announced. But a comparatively small film like Hindi Medium releases much after the said ban without any noise or issues related to it's casting. And funny enough, considering that film has just released, there is a possibility that the actual casting was done after the ban was announced or at least they did have time available to them to change the casting (if they wanted to do so) after the ban was announced. But they did not. That just shows that bollywood insiders know that the casting issue hype was created to promote those big budget films and that issue was itself not really a big deal. Why would a small budget filmmaker bother to mess with all kinds of rowdy and criminal kind of political outfits by casting a Pakistani actor, if the issue was real?