Mawra Hocane moves out of Islamabad apartment

Newlywed actor Mawra Hocane understands the bittersweet feelings attached to moving on, all too well. In a new Instagram post, she looked back on old memories as she packed up her belongings from her Islamabad apartment, bidding farewell to her old home with a carousel of photos and a heartfelt note.

"Every time I bought a home, my mama said, 'May Allah grant you the chance to live here.' Today, I truly understood what that meant. How long one can live in one place is truly written. I was lucky enough to live here two years, on and off, before I got married," Mawra reflected.

The Jafaa actor announced that she had finally relocated all her belongings from her old home to her new one, which took a long time and made her wistful.

The photos that the Nauroz actor added to the carousel included a selfie flaunting the lounge, a mirror's peek into her bedroom, a glass-filtered view of the gallery, and a life-sized teddy bear. In some photos, her showpieces were loaded inside a vehicle, ready to be moved to her new home.

"I absolutely love my husband's home, and I was thrilled to move into it. But no matter how seamless the process may be - which it was, thanks to my most incredible in-laws - I needed to take my time. I let the feeling sink in," she said. "It's never easy to leave your home and call a new place home."

But Mawra also reassured her followers that she was getting used to the feeling. "Slowly but surely I'm feeling like it's my space, taking with me the things I've been too attached to from this house above," she said, referring to the intimate corners of her old home. "One piece at a time, I'm hijacking his entire space."

In January, the actor gave a tour of her home on her YouTube channel M Live, going into details about how she furnished her apartment to transform it into the home of her dreams. Upon her fans' request, she shared a link to the vlog on Instagram Stories, writing, "Happy that I lived here for two years."

Mawra tied the knot with Ameer Gilani earlier this year, sharing photos from each wedding event in February. Her posts accompanied the sweet hashtag #MawraAmeerHogayi, capturing wholesome moments with family members, including sister Urwa Hocane and brother-in-law Farhan Saeed.

Around the same time, Mawra received the additional good news that her Bollywood debut from 2016, Sanam Teri Kasam, broke the record for the highest-grossing re-released film in India.