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Pakistani actress Saboor Aly has responded to the backlash she received on social media after her video mocking a man cleaning a glass window went viral on social media. Saboor Aly along with another actress, Saheefa Jabbar Khattak, received flak on social media as fans were enraged after watching the two mocking the manual labor.
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Saboor Aly was heard laughing at the man saying “Kya kya khuwab leke iss ki maa ne is ko ghar se bejha tha”, which loosely translates to “His mother must have had big dreams when she sent him to work.”
Inside jokes should be kept inside. Saboor Aly is a clear example of the elite class treating labour. Her explaination did not do justice to thar offensive inside joke. #SaboorAly
— Safa Ghaffar (@safamag97) May 11, 2019
Their co-actor, Affan Waheed, however, did not participate in the mockery as he said that the man is working hard.
Since the backlash, the actress Saboor Aly, who is the sister of Sajal Aly, came out with a clarification of her video stating that the said man in the video is the assistant director of their TV drama with whom they frequently joke.
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She attempted to justify the ‘joke’: ” Nowhere have we called him a window cleaner or made fun of any specific profession. What was an inside joke with an individual, has been portrayed as an insult of the profession which was never the intention or a fact even in the content that’s still on my social media. Frankly, these are just not the values I have been brought up with.”
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Addressing her critics, she said, “All I will humbly say in the end is next time you point your finger on someone’s actions or words especially when you are looking at them in isolation and not the whole picture think and be responsible. Don’t just do it for the followers, likes, and engagement.” Saboor has not apologized for her words or accepted that they were offensive to manual laborers.