Each couple of weeks we’re subjected to the nightmare that’s Nadir Ali’s podcast. This week, he proved himself to be sexist in his commentary about Indian actors Priyanka Chopra and Ameesha Patel, however that’s not stunning. What’s stunning to us is that actors nonetheless go on his present.
It’s a present that has given us nothing however controversy. Normally, when celebrities are interviewed, controversy arises after they stick their toes in their very own mouths. Right here, it arises from the crass questions and pointed remarks of the host.
His prying and intrusive questions, geared toward hitting each sore spot society has, have cemented him as a dudebro of epic proportions. And we clearly don’t imply that in a flattering method.
This week’s visitor was Moammar Rana. Within the episode, they spoke about Rana as soon as ‘meeting’ Priyanka Chopra however not recognising her in any respect — Ali requested in an apart if Rana thought she was a maid. His crush was immediately over, the actor stated, making throwing motions to point the power of his emotion. Ali interjected that she was like kala namak or black salt in an try to be humorous — although it actually appears to us as if he wouldn’t know precise humour if it smacked him within the face. Irrelevant interjections don’t humour make.
Rana then spoke about somebody he thought-about “genuinely beautiful” — Ameesha Patel. In one other try to be ‘funny’, Ali requested how she was stunning. “Her face or…” he requested, permitting the implication to linger. When Rana confirmed he was certainly speaking about her face, Ali burst into track — Chehra kya dekhtay ho, dil could utar kay, pointing at his chest with a lascivious smile on his face.
His sexism and downright disgusting commentary wasn’t restricted to this — he additionally requested Rana which girls he thought have been bhayanak or scary, to which he replied there have been none in Pakistan however positively some in India — however this appears to be what the web has picked up on.
Of the tops of our heads, we will recall many different cases the place the podcast host has been gross on his present. He requested Christian actor Sunita Marshall about changing to Islam, tried to nook mannequin Nadia Hussain into calling fellow actors ‘ugly’ and disparaged girls actors by asking Behroze Sabzwari a few ‘strategy’ to achieve extra views by carrying fewer garments.
The host and his odious podcast first popped up on our radar of problematic issues when he interviewed the late Aamir Liaquat and his then new spouse Dania. That interview was rife with snickered innuendos about second marriages and Ali’s assertion {that a} “woman’s true enemy is another woman”. He’s, after all, the supreme authority on girls as we’re certain all of us agree. Earlier than that, he was a YouTuber who pulled pranks on unsuspecting individuals — the epitome of excellent humour.
There are in all probability many extra cases like this, however to be very sincere, we don’t need to watch any extra thoughts numbing content material to select examples of sexism and crassness. It’s sufficient that social media shares clips of the podcast — why should we truly watch extra of the manufacturing to verify what we already know?
Nadir Ali’s podcast is sort of actually a blight on society. It each brings out the worst within the visitors — who aren’t actually all that harmless for willingly and knowingly occurring his present regardless of all the pieces — and perpetuates the worst of Pakistani society. Sexism, insulting feedback, colourism — he’s bought all of it, wrapped up in a dimly lit bundle with a bow on prime.
The podcast actually is the worst device in our media arsenal, even worse, in our opinion, than nameless Instagram accounts that enable customers to nitpick particulars of individuals’s lives and say issues they’d by no means have the center to say in actual life. Podcasts permits anybody with a microphone and an web connection the power to add their unfiltered ideas advert nauseam on-line and attain people of comparable bigoted mindsets.
We’re all for freedom of thought and expression, however in some instances, we see why content material curbs are essential and these curbs want to come back from the viewers. Not everybody’s ideas must be shared with the world. We don’t want to listen to anymore sexist remarks about girls’s appearances and low cost feedback than we already do in the actual world and we positively don’t want younger individuals to suppose speaking about individuals like that is okay. The time period polluting the minds of the youth is thrown about so much but it surely actually applies right here — to a podcast so insidiously benign in look that it appears to be a jovial man interviewing individuals with little to no agenda.
We perceive, after all, that these questions are requested with a aim in thoughts. The indignant reactions, the outrage, the articles and social media posts all get Nadir Ali what he needs — views. Persons are speaking about him and his podcast and isn’t that what anybody with an revenue based mostly solely on the quantity of people that watch your content material needs? The extra we discuss him and his podcast, the extra we watch his podcast within the hopes of selecting out one other horrible remark, the extra he income.
We may write volumes about his vile podcast and the ridiculous and downright disgusting questions requested, however on the finish of the day, he received’t care. That’s why we ask that you simply simply cease speaking about him. Cease watching, cease reacting, cease speaking about him. Simply ignore him and hopefully, he’ll finally fade into the obscurity from which he emerged.
He describes himself as “a Pakistani YouTuber known for his funny and prank videos”. We want this was one large prank however maybe the precise prank is that this man is being made into an web sensation and persons are keen to digest the regurgitated rubbish he continues to hawk.
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