Actor Fahad Sheikh has denied disrespecting veteran actor Mohammed Ahmed in a video that went viral on Wednesday, claiming “what seems like a ‘bully’ was not the case to begin with”.
The actor was referring to a video shared widely on social media in which he and other cast members laugh at Ahmed while on set, using a pocket-sized fan to style Ahmed’s hair. The video emerged after an interview given by Ahmed in which he said an actor some 40 years his junior disrespected him on set.
Appearing on the Dareecha podcast with Sheeba Khan, Ahmed recounted an experience where a much younger actor started ridiculing him in the green room. The actor said the man was the show’s lead actor and spoke in a loud voice to boost his sense of importance in the room. The unnamed actor told people, “This man here, Mohammed Ahmed, I first worked with him four to six years ago and he judged me to see whether I could act, then he told the producer I was alright.”
Ahmed also recounted an incident during a shoot in which the actor took a portable fan from one of the other actors and used it like a hairdryer on Ahmed’s head. “He shouted to everyone, ‘Look, I am styling his hair!’”
Ahmed said he did not react at the time because everyone has a mobile phone now and things like this often get posted on social media without context and he didn’t want to stoop to that level. The video that went viral appeared to show the same incident he described in the interview.
