Pakistani actor and producer Humayun Saeed has shared a string of amusing, emotional, and surprising stories from his childhood and early adult life, tales that reveal a lesser-known, more relatable side of the superstar.
Humayun recently appeared on the comedy talk show Hasna Mana Hai, where he recalled pretending to tutor his cousin at his uncle’s house, only to spend time standing on the rooftop for an entirely different reason. “I would make an excuse to go teach my cousin, but right after the lesson, I’d go up to the rooftop,” he laughed. Eventually, neighbors and even his uncle caught on. “My uncle told my father, ‘He comes here to teach, but he’s doing something else!’” he joked.
Things took a serious turn when his father confronted him about the situation. “He asked me directly, and I lied. But then I got such a slap that I ran down from the seventh floor, and I could still hear the echo of that slap,” he said. “My father didn’t like lies, he wanted me to tell the truth.”
In a past interview, Humayun shared how short-tempered his father was and that he never wanted to become like him because of his intense temper.
In another humorous yet touching anecdote, Saeed described how he once followed the same girl he had seen at a wedding, and she was older than him, whom he had fallen for at first sight. “I found out she was traveling to Hyderabad with her family, so I went to the station just to see her face again,” he said. But things didn’t end there. “When the train started moving, I felt like I hadn’t seen her enough… so I jumped onto the train at the last minute, several coaches behind.”
His mission wasn’t as smooth as he had imagined. “There was a wall blocking the way forward inside the train. I thought, ‘Now I’ll go all the way to Hyderabad and she won’t even know.’” Eventually, when the train slowed near Rohri, he made a daring leap from one coach to another, drawing attention from passengers who thought he had fallen. “People started reaching out to help me, thinking I had slipped, but I made it on board and finally walked past her. She looked so shocked to see me!” he laughed.
Saeed also shared that his first profession was teaching. “At 16 or 17, I used to give tuitions to primary school kids. I taught all subjects, mostly math, and used to go to four or five places a day to teach,” he revealed.
When asked whether he’s more like his serious characters, such as the one in Main Manto nahi Hoon, or romantic ones like in Love Guru, Saeed responded: “I’m a mix of both, a bit of Manto, a bit of Love Guru.”
One of the most entertaining stories came when he recalled his 1992 trip to India. While traveling by train, he asked the staff to play a cassette he had brought along, which was a compilation of songs by the iconic band Vital Signs. “I loved their songs, especially back then. But the last track on one side was Dil Dil Pakistan,” he chuckled.
That moment quickly turned tense. “The whole train echoed with Dil Dil Pakistan, and I didn’t have a visa for Delhi. I and my friend were pretending to be Indian citizens. When the cassette finished and that song played, a crew member came around asking whose tape it was. I just sat quietly and prayed they wouldn’t find out it was mine.”
On the work front, he revealed that Jawani Phir Nahi Aani 3 will be shot in Vegas, America.