Upcoming actor, Rehmat Ajmal, who plays Danish (Humayun Saeed) and Mehwish’s (Ayeza Khan) friend Ayesha in Meray Paas Tum Ho says that she is “not proud to be part of something that is so compromising and ill-informed”.
Taking to Instagram, she wrote the message on her public account, saying that she watched Khalil ur Rehman Qamar’s interview and “got to know about his problematic views on very many things WAY after the project was completed” and that “I absolutely do not endorse the concepts and viewpoints of Mr. Khalil Ul Rehman”.
She explains that her role in the drama is limited and she did not get a chance to see how the whole thing would come together. She was not aware of the entire story line or of Rehman’s ideology when she accepted the role. It is her “first ever telecom project and I am learning – I have learnt to be cautious and more conscious with my creative choices”. She also asks people to, “extend new, struggling artists some leeway as we are in the process of learning” and that they are trying to make their mark on merit.
The hit drama has broken all records for viewership but the writer of the show, Khalil-ur-Rehman Qamar has come under fire for his misogynistic comments about women.
In ARY’s success show of Meray Paas Tum Ho Khalil ur Rehman Qamar made some more controversial comments and the female actors sitting around him said nothing and visibly cringed. The actors came under direct fire on social media for not speaking up against Qamar’s comments.
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Most recently he was in a program with social activist Tahira Abdullah who brilliantly explained what feminism meant to women in a video that went viral.
The drama’s final episode will air on ARY Digital this Saturday and in cinemas nationwide.
