There’s this TV actress by the name of Hina Dilpazeer. She shot to fame with her role as a names-confusing middle-aged woman Momo in the sitcom Bulbulay. Make no mistake, she is a good performer. But what she needs to understand is that if on the one hand overexposure earns recognition to/for artists, on the other hand it often lays bare their weaker points.

Ever since hers became a known TV face, Hina D is being seen on virtually every entertainment channel doing different roles in different plays, and sounding the same. She perhaps believes in the saying ‘make hay while the sun shines’. Well, the sun may never disappear, but the hay is about become scarce.

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