Pakistani TV show host receives flak for joking about Irrfan and Sridevi's demise

MUMBAI: Pakistani television personality Aamir Liaquat Husain has apologised for making extremely insensitive remarks about the deaths of Bollywood actors Sridevi and Irrfan Khan.

Recently, in a segment of his show Jeewey Pakistan, he joked about the deaths with actor Adnan Siddiqui, who has worked with Sridevi and Irrfan Khan.

Liaquat Husain started off by saying that Adnan saved the lives of Rani Mukerji and Bipasha Basu. A confused Adnan asked how.

To which, Liaquat Husain disgracefully joked about how the actors Adnan worked with outside of Pakistan, died.

'You worked in Mom and Sridevi died. You worked with Irrfan Khan as well and he passed away. You were offered roles in Mardaani 2 and Jism 2, but you declined, so the actors of that movie owe their life to you,' he added.

Adnan looked uncomfortable with the remarks and even told Liaquat Husain that it was not something to joke about. Adnan worked with Irrfan in 2007's A Mighty Heart, which also featured Angelina Jolie.

Liaquat Husain faced a lot of flak for remarks. On Saturday, he released a video, apologising for his insensitive comments.

'Sometimes you lose control over your words. That happens in a live show. At the time it didn't seem like a big issue but when I later thought about I realised that was not appropriate. So I'm really sorry. Keeping humanity in mind, this should not have been said. I made a mistake,' he said in the video.

Adnan also released a statement about his reaction to the incident on Twitter: So I don't know how to explain what I'm feeling right now or what to say. But this needs to go out. I was invited on the live chat show Jeewey Pakistan yesterday when this unfortunate incident happened. The anchor Amir Liaquat Sahab joked about something extremely sensitive. Not only were they both close to me but also as a human it was wrong on so many levels. I cannot even call it hitting below the belt.

Credits: MSN