Ali Zafar took to social media over the weekend and shared a cryptic note about his musings on the Pakistani public and their prying into celebrities’ personal and private matters.
Pakistan’s showbiz industry is rife with controversies and scandals of late. Feroze Khan and Syeda Aliza Sultan’s messy divorce and Aima Baig’s broken engagement with Shahbaz Shigri and her purported scandal with British model Taloulah Mair’s ex-boyfriend and Qes Ahmed are all what the public seemed to talk about on social media this month.
Celebrities are human, but the only difference is if that they make a mistake, it becomes a public spectacle. These scandals give netizens something to talk about, judge them, and enjoy their humiliation.
One celebrity who is familiar with such scandals and vitriol is Ali Zafar himself. The Teefa in Trouble star had to endure public scrutiny because of his ‘alleged’ harassment of Meesha Shafi, which resulted in a legal case that is still unsettled.
He recently took to his Instagram account and wrote:
We don’t want others to judge us but we want to judge others all the time. We hate it when someone pokes his/her nose into our personal or private matter but we can’t live without doing the same. We seek pleasure in someone’s pain. We seek unnecessary attention all the time. We crave validation. We like to scream and shout to be heard. Bite and slander to be noticed.
The singer concluded his message with a question to the nation, “Are we sick?”
Zafar is a Pakistani singer-songwriter, model, actor, producer, screenwriter, and painter. He started out in Pakistani television before becoming a popular musician, and later established a career in Bollywood.
The Channo singer certainly raised some fair points about society’s mentality. What do you think about his take on it? Let us know in the comments down below.
