'Window cleaner' in Saboor Aly's video comes to her defence

Pakistani actress Saboor Aly, who came under fire for her ‘classist’ joke against a ‘window cleaner’ earlier in the day, has clarified her stance on Twitter once again.

On Saturday evening, the actress posted a video on her Twitter account, flanking the person in question with fellow actress Saheefa Jabbar.

The person then introduces himself as Ehsan Shaikh, associate director [of Saheefa Jabbar and Saboor Aly’s upcoming play].

He goes on to say that all of them were working on a project like ‘a family’. “It’s our routine to make fun of each other because we need to entertain ourselves to entertain you.”

The video that went viral yesterday, was just a joke, he says, adding that some people took it negatively. “We just want to say, it was never intended as such”, he said.

https://twitter.com/Saboor_Aly/status/1127205368621412353

Actress Saboor Aly received flak on social media after one of her Instagram stories went viral in which she was seen cracking jokes on a man who is cleaning windows at a drama set.

The actress, who was being criticised for making fun of a hardworking labourer, took to Instagram and maintained that the man in the video is not a labourer but the assistant director of one of her upcoming plays “with whom we have worked for months and being colleagues we share a lot of funny moments and jokes”.

Disgusted to the core … Aisay perhay likhay “ameer” aur “fankaar” logo’n say insaan mazdoor or Shareef behter… pic.twitter.com/CgOx99n76a

— madeha naqvi (@madehanaqvi) May 10, 2019

In a lengthy note on Instagram, the actress said that she never called him a window cleaner “or made fun of any specific profession’

“What was an inside joke with an individual is being portrayed as an insult of the profession which was never the intention, nor the fact even in the content that is still on my social media. Frankly, these are not the values I have been brought up with,” wrote Saboor Aly.