With herself and television enjoying a period of thirty years, she candidly says that quality young blood is a scarcity, holding a very critical view of the new stream of actors, actresses and directors. What worries her the most is the fact that this generation of artists are not ready to put in the right kind of effort, at times they lack the much needed talent, or do not have the initial training. Their neglect is a great source of frustration for the senior artists, and then on top of that, turning up fashionably late can push the level of patience to the edge. Zaheen Tahira also possesses a particular hatred for mobile phones, for reasons very obvious. All the young artists have them and spend half the time conversing, disturbing other artists.
Movies are the next step and mean quick easy money.
Therefore the masses went to the movies, and that's where many like Zaheen Tahira gained their aspirations. In her family acting, mimicking film actors, or aspiring to be a film actor was considered a sin. She was forbidden by her parents, and on one occasion received a beating from her mother for singing songs. But in the later years of her life, she was allowed to work in the movie Khwahish . The movie had actors mostly from television.