Actress Saboor Aly, who is receiving flak on social media after one of her Instagram stories went viral in which she can be seen cracking jokes on a man who is cleaning windows at a drama set, has finally opened up about the viral video.
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”.
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.
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The viral video shows Saboor Aly cracking jokes about a guy cleaning windows at the set and also asking fellow actor Affan Waheed about his opinion on the matter, who said that “mehnat krraha ha yaar” (he is working hard).
A number of social media pages, celebrities and influencers have shared this video condemning “how a hard working and poor individual is being insulted”.
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
Even after Saboor’s explanantion, a number of social media users are doubting that the man may not be an assistant director and are daring her to record another video with the man.
