Singer turned politician Abrar ul Haq’s quip about moms taking part in the song ‘Baby Shark’ may well have absent down very well with some persons but it didn’t sit appropriate with anyone who read it. Even though superstars these kinds of as model Nadia Hussain and actor Yasir Hussain criticised the singer, actor Zarnish Khan and singer Shafqat Amanat Ali came to Haq’s defence.
Haq — who joined the PTI just after a profitable run as a singer-songwriter through the 90s — built his controversial remark at a PTI celebratory convention in Islamabad on August 26. “When we utilized to be younger, we got to listen to the Kalma becoming recited by our moms,” he claimed. “Present-day young children are handed cellphones so that moms can participate in them ‘Baby Shark’,” he explained.
A online video of Haq’s comment, which integrated him singing ‘Baby Shark’, was extensively shared on social media. Nadia reacted to the video clip on Twitter and criticised the singer.
“Not certain how you go from listening to the Kalma from your mom to belting out track these kinds of as ‘Nach Punjaban’ or ‘Billo De Ghar’,” she reported on Twitter, referring to the singer’s well known tracks about females.
The tune ‘Nach Punjaban’ is about a Punjabi girl who loves to dance whilst the music ‘Billo De Ghar’ is about a man flirtatiously hurrying to the property of a girl he likes. Yasir backed Nadia up by sharing her critique on social media. “You’ve hit the nail on the head. Fantastic a person,” he reported on instagram Stories.
Khan did not feel to share the very same sentiments although. She criticised all those making particular attacks from Haq character in light of his comments.
“If another person says a good point, let us phrase it as this sort of,” she mentioned on Instagram Tales. “Let us not overlook what they stated or judge their full lives. If this goes on then we’ll have to practice turning into deaf [to good statements].”
Ali also commented in defence of Haq on a write-up by the publication Galaxy Lollywood on Instagram. “Abrar ul Haq did not say everything wrong. He failed to shame moms or any women of all ages here. He just explained the real truth which incorporates all of us! It really should be an eye opener for us relatively than throwing a fit at him. We do not have to criticise everything,” he wrote.
“The tunes ‘Nach Punjaban’ and ‘Billo De Ghar’ had been not by the singer in the lap of his mother at the age of a single,” Ali continued. “He’s talking about increasing little ones listed here, not someone’s job. It is a person’s alternative no matter if they want to be a singer or an actor when they expand up.”
Ali’s remark arrived as a response to a general debate triggered by Haq’s critique on whether the singer should have called out mothers for playing rhymes this kind of as ‘Baby Shark’ to their small children, as opposed to playing them content material additional religious in nature.
