Faysal Qureshi

Pakistani VJ and media personality, Mathira has come forward and expressed her concern regarding a statement made by Pakistani actor Faysal Qureshi during an interview with BBC Urdu hosted by host Barak Shabir.

Mathira who often expresses herself on her Instagram took it to the same medium to lash out at the actor for not appreciating women for multitasking. She questioned why the actor thinks that fellow female actors exhaust their career’s after getting married and having kids.

Mathira wrote on her Instagram story, “One should appreciate a woman doing multitasking. Why is it a woman’s career goes down the drain if they [get married] and have kids?”

She added, “It’s pretty sad to hear a statement like this!”

During the interview, the actor expressed how it was more difficult for women to work while taking care of their kids. He mentioned Sunita Marshall, Shaista Lodhi, Savera Nadeem, and Iqra Aziz to state examples. 

He said, “Women are burdened a lot more. Men say they are running the house, but the women do the actual work. Even if she is, she is an actor, she’ll be looking at the kids and groceries and whatnot at the same time.”

He also pointed out Iqra Aziz’s case, who recently became a mother. He said, “This is an issue with female actors, they work fine until they are married. Even if you look at Iqra [Aziz], you notice how she’s taken on less work ever since she had a baby. She is a phenomenal actor.”

Qureshi, concerned about her, questioned Iqra about why she was not working as much as she was. “When I asked her why she told me she had to take care of her child.” He compared her husband’s situation on the other side, “Yasir [Hussain] is banging out projects one after the other.”

All in all, we think Qureshi didn’t mean to say anything derogatory regarding the actresses turned mothers. He instead tried to point out how women’s careers suffer even if supposedly men believe that they are the one’s running the house because, in reality, women are doing more.

“Women are Burdened More,” says Faysal Qureshi in his Experience Working with Married Actresses. Read the full story here:

Pakistani actor Faysal Qureshi has appeared in an interview recently and touched upon how careers of female actresses in the industry suffer after they get married and have children. While being interviewed by BBC Urdu’s host Barak Shabir, the star said he thinks that women in the showbiz work just fine until they get married and, later, have children. “I think it’s because women end up getting married and taking care of their children.”

“Women are Burdened More” says Faysal Qureshi on his Experience Working with Married Actresses

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