Actor and comedian Yasir Hussain had come under fire for his insensitive joke about transgender persons.
Yasir Hussain will be playing the role of a transgender in upcoming drama serial ‘Help Me Durdana’.
As Hussain posted pictures of his getup on social media, he was met with witty comments. However, he responded to them with some insensitive humour about transgender.
This came to the attention of Twitterati who had slammed the actor for his remarks. However, Hussain’s rumoured girlfriend and co-actor Iqra Aziz came to his defence.
Responding to the hate comments on Hussain’s pictures, Iqra Aziz said all such comments are a disappointment.
“You all call yourselves humans and want to help make this world better but you are the people who would not accept transgender as their neighbours,” she said, adding, “If you want to teach someone about right and wrong, first look at yourselves what you’ve been doing wrong.”
She said that we should respect everyone and this means not only trans but all the humans.
‘You all call yourselves humans and want to help make this world better but you are the people who would not accept transgender as their neighbours. If you want to teach someone about right and wrong, first look at yourselves what you’ve been doing wrong’
“I don’t want to offend anyone here but please start preaching good from yourself and don’t do point scoring by misunderstanding the comments of any public figure,” the actress further said.
Aziz’s comments were rather surprising for most of the people as many did not expect her to defend such insensitive comments.
When Hussain had shared some pictures of his transgender getup, one follower had questioned his role by asking why dramas don’t hire actual transgender which was one potent question. Hussain, however, taking it way too lightly, replied with some insensitive remarks.
When another follower ridiculed Hussain, the actor responded to them by referring to them as transgender.
This was not the first time Hussain had made such insensitive remarks. Earlier, at Lux Style Awards, he had joked about child molestation that also did not go well with people. He had remarked about Ahsan Khan’s character in ‘Udaari’ as “itna khoobsoorat child molester, kaash main bhi bacha hota” at the award show.
Hussain was widely criticised on social media for these comments, following which he wrote a clarification.