Faakhir denies Ali Azmat's stand on his nasty jokes being scripted

"The LSA showdown was not scripted!"

– Faakhir denies Ali Azmat's stand on his jokes being scripted

Who doesn't know about the Ali Azmat-Faakhir showdown at the recent Lux Style Awards? Ali Azmat kept cracking jokes and targeted Faakhir by first calling him "pretty" then telling him "the waiter wants his clothes back".

When Faakhir tried to defend himself by saying, "The world loves a joker", Ali retorted, "Yeah! I talk like one and you dress like one".

And that was just really nasty. When Instep Today asked Ali Azmat if he crossed the line with his jokes on Faakhir, Ali coolly replied, "It was all scripted and Faakhir knew what was coming his way. It looked like it was extempore but actually it wasn't."

It seems odd for this kind of script, given how annoyed Faakhir looked with Ali's snappy comebacks onstage.

Instep Today got in touch with Faakhir to find out if Ali's assertion was true. "The only script I was given was, 'now, we will announce the Female Model of the Year' and that's it," Faakhir said. "When I saw someone insulting me on stage, I had to reply back. I was not prepared for it and it was NOT scripted."

We do wonder what Ali was really thinking, taking a nasty swipe at a colleague no less. Faakhir's confirmation made it evident that the crass humour by Ali couldn't have been scripted. Come on… who expects Adeel Hashmi (who scripted the LSAs this year) to write such lines about other industry people?

Furthermore, Ali Azmat was slated to perform with celebrated singer Reshma but at the rehearsals, he revealed to Instep Today that he couldn't rehearse with Reshma so his performance act was dropped. That was understandable until Ali gave us another contradictory statement, after the show.

When Instep Today asked Ali if he missed performing with the legend or not he replied, "There was no point in singing Reshma's song on the platform provided. I would have preferred to sing my own."

Ah! He was not even interested in performing with Reshma - a woman who is iconic in Pakistan and was being honoured at the LSAs this year. We loved watching Atif Aslam and Shehzad Roy join her onstage and it would've been incredible had Ali Azmat also done the same.

But it seems Ali Azmat is neither interested in paying tributes to legends nor respecting his contemporaries. And how sad and unfortunate that is!

Link: The News International