Adnan Siddiqui Refutes News He Faced Bias in Hollywood

He says he was misquoted.

Noted actor Adnan Siddiqui now says that he didn’t face discrimination on the sets of ‘A Mighty Heart‘. The Pakistani actor has refuted the news from a few days back. He says that he was misquoted and it might create a rift with his friends.

Adnan slammed claims that Hollywood mistreated him. These remarks were based on his years-old interview with Samina Peerzada that allege otherwise.

In an Instagram post, the Mom actor rejected the news, stating that he had been misquoted.

“I didn’t face any discrimination during the shoot. When I’d gone to shoot in Pune, on the first day I stayed in a different hotel. But when I told the production team who was I etc, the very next day they moved me to Taj.

And there’s no ego/status issue here cause I understand I come from a different industry and at times we also don’t know about the actors and their status who come from different industries. I went to Taj to have dinner on day one in the rickshaw which let me tell you was a fun experience.

From the second day till the shoot was over, I stayed at the Taj where Angelina Jolie and Late Irrfan Khan were also staying.”

 

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The Sammi actor expressed disappointment in Pakistani media for not running it by him to cross-check.

 “FYI – Why half-baked journalism? If you want to publish news, at least get the facts right and if there are doubts the least you can do is to cross-check with the person you’re writing about!!”

 

Adnan Siddiqui was concerned that this would create a rift with his friends.

“Appalled at the state of journalism these days. Not only are you feeding wrong piece of information to your audience but also you may create a rift between people am friends with.”


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Coincidentally, Adnan Siddiqui had opened up about the lack of support from Pakistani media in his appearance on ‘Rewind With Samina Peerzada‘.

“Irfan Khan and I started our Hollywood careers together, look at him now and where do I stand. The reason being, that their media is very supportive,”

 

Released in 2007, A Mighty Heart is based on the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The film that came out five years after the journalist’s murder cast Angelina Jolie as Pearl’s wife, while Adnan essayed the role of a character called Dost Aliani.

The two worked closely to dig into Pearl’s murder case.