Actor Naeema Butt addressed filmmaker Sangeeta’s claims she was let go from the upcoming film Mukho due to her behaviour, which included making ‘demands’ of the director.
Butt denied the allegations outright, saying she was unable to do the project due to scheduling conflicts and the ‘demands’ were actually suggestions the director had asked for.
Thanking her supporters — especially Mishi Khan — in an Instagram post on Tuesday, Butt said her suggestions were given “with good intentions for the betterment of the whole project and its quality, because she asked for them too”. She also said she never agreed to join the project because she wasn’t available on the dates it was scheduled to be shot on.
The actor said Sangeeta had handed her an advance payment on their very first meeting and told her it would be rude to return the money to a senior. She said she wasn’t sure she’d take on the project at the time and had returned the amount as soon as she had made her decision.
In an interview with journalist Ambreen Fatima published on Monday, Sangeeta had claimed Butt had accepted payment for a role in her movie Mukho in advance.
