Desirability is a very subjective thing and while there is no scientific measurement to gauge how desirable someone is, there are certain ways of finding out who is the hot flavor of the moment. Be it arbitrarily curated list of sexy and attractive people or someone’s bare-bodied pictures going viral, social media has a way of passing judgment about whether someone is hot or not.

A few days ago a picture posted by the Pakistani born comedian-actor Kumail Nanjiani broke the internet. Kumail, known mostly for his stint in the successful comedy show Silicon Valley and the critical-commercial hit film The Big Sick, shocked the world by his complete body transformation.

Setting social media ablaze

The actor who is to star in the upcoming Marvel movie The Eternals has beefed up for his role and has shed his body fat to rock perfectly lean abs. Needless to say, the social media had a gala time marveling at Kumail’s transformation and the world instantly began to see this Pakistani born man into a new light of desirability.

Kumail Nanjiani won the ‘beginning of the decade vs. end of the decade’ challenge pic.twitter.com/bQ9JclOoYa

— crazy spooked asian (@tribranchvo) December 16, 2019

The impact of Kumail’s body transformation can be measured by a never-been-done-before feat achieved by any Pakistani origin star. We are talking about Kumail’s viral picture being featured on the internet’s biggest adult website Pornhub. The picture was used as a thumbnail on the website for the category of “Muscular Man”. This is the first time any Pakistani has ever featured on the website and while the topic about whether or not this feat is something to be celebrated is certainly debatable, one cannot argue that it is indeed big for a brown person, that too of Pakistani origin, to be featured on one of the largest website of the world so prominently.

Most desirable?

All of this just makes us wonder – is Kumail Nanjiani now the most desirable Pakistani star in the world? Pakistani actors and stars get featured on many annual lists like Sexiest Personality of Beautiful Faces and that too on near top spots. So the idea of a Pakistani star being considered beautiful and desirable is not new. But the kind of social media attention and traction that Kumail has gotten is certainly something else. Perhaps it is due to where the attention is coming from instead of the attention itself.

Let’s face it the western side of the world especially America has a huge say in what is considered globally popular or not. If a star or a musical act can make it there in the land of whites and the English then that means they have made it big. And since Kumail Nanjiani is getting the approval of the very same white and English audience which has the final say in what is actually considered a hit and whatnot, at least in the eyes of the commonly accessed media.

Final word

Not to take away from Kumail Nanjiani’s hard work and success but Pakistan has many more charming, attractive, desirable, and even sexy stars that we’d love to be our representatives. With personalities like Fawad Khan, Bilal Ashraf, Ali Zafar, Imran Abbas, Feroze Khan to name a few, there is no dearth of attractiveness found in the motherland. What they lack is the right kind of international exposure to garnering this kind of attention. And until that happens, it looks like we’ll have to make-do with Kumail Nanjiani as being the representative of Pakistani brand of desirability at an international level.

Aaah…warna kam toh hamara Fawad Khan bhi nahin.