Pakistani stars face a lot of criticism, from every direction. Some of it is warranted, some isn’t and actor Syed Mohammed Ahmed fired shots at those dishing out the latter.
In a reel posted to his Instagram account on Saturday, the actor looked straight into camera and said he didn’t have much writing or acting to do nowadays, so he was considering becoming an armchair critic on social media.
“Do you know what the best job nowadays is? The best job is, if you don’t have any work to do, you are a useless person who has failed in life, you can’t do anything, just start criticising people. Disrespect your colleagues, criticise them, spew venom against them even. Say whatever comes to mind about them. That will get you your likes.”
Ahmed admitted the job didn’t pay especially well, but said it comes with an even grander prize: viral fame. “People were ridiculed, you spoke nonsense about them, but you got your likes, you got your viewership, your video went viral,” he said.
The actor said he was thinking of taking the activity up, but couldn’t figure out where to start and who to criticise first. “The actor who stands outside in the middle of a heatwave and acts for you? Maybe we should criticise him? It’ll be fun, we’ll get our likes.”
