After listening to Naila Jaffery’s appeal to the government to help her in the fight against cancer, Sindh Minister for Culture Sardar Ali Shah announced that his department will bear all her expenses.
In a video, shared by Naila Jaffery’s friend and filmmaker Furqan Siddiqui, the veteran actress highlighted her struggles with ovarian cancer for the last six years. Due to her prolonged illness and rising medical expenses, she is facing difficulty affording her healthcare, and thus demanded TV channels to pay for it in the form of royalties as they have aired the re-runs of her dramas multiple times.
“When I first joined PTV, I remember that the broadcasters would pay us royalties for re-runs of our old shows. And though it wasn’t a lot, receiving that extra bit of money always felt great,” she continued.
My dear friend and a renowned TV actor Naila Jafri has been fighting Cancer since last 6 years. The battle is very expensive. In this video she requests if the channel owners pay royalty to her previous work’s re runs it will be of great help to her. pic.twitter.com/AYc6TOTRB7
— Furqan T. Siddiqui (@furqantsiddiqui) April 4, 2021
“The last serial I did has run on air some six times over the last six years, maybe four. Similarly, other dramas too. For those re-runs, we should’ve been paid royalties. A lot of other people might not need such money, but when you haven’t been working for a while, and have no support, these things become very important,” she argued.
Many people and celebrities came for her support and actor Yasir Hussain also spoke on the matter and called the TV channels a ‘mafia’.
The Sindh Minister for Culture Sardar Ali Shah also responded to Naila Jaffery’s plea and said that his department will ‘happily bear all her expenses’.
Culture department will happily bear all her expenses .. can anyone share her contact number?
Culture department will happily bear all her expenses .. can anyone share her contact number?
— Sardar Shah (@sardarshah1) April 4, 2021
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