LAHORE: Actor and cinematographer Usman Mukhtar is the latest celeb to make some shocking revelations about harassment and bullying that he says he has been enduring at the hands of a colleague for over a year.
Taking to Instagram stories, the Parchi star explained that the spat began over creative differences on a music video and ended up with him being harassed, bullied and his character being maligned.
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The Pakistani actor explained that the only reason he was choosing to speak up about this whole situation is that his family and his mental health have been suffering as a direct consequence of the tiff.
He also said that the harassment was reported to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). He said that the FIA took a year to trace the woman, adding, “Another half a year to summon her after calling her multiple times.”
“My Family and friends have been targeted with harassment and disparaging comments, specially Amma, my mental health has suffered, my axiety has been messing with my health because of this person. I stayed quiet and let the authorities deal with it. However, I’m just tired,” he wrote on Instagram.
The Anaa actor further shared, “I had wanted to resolve this quietly, in order to not bring negative attention onto a woman, but I can’t remain silent in good conscience while my character is constantly being maligned.”
He also shared complete story of the whole incident that how a female artist who worked with him in 2016, started making false claims against Mukhtar on digital platforms.
Usman wrote that during the shoot and post-process, they continually had creative differences and had a lot of arguments. In the end, the two decided that the music video would be released but Usman Mukhtar would not be given his due credit as a director.
Since the video in question wasn’t something he could relate to as an artist, Usman was okay with the decision, however, the actor claimed that he has “been harassed, blackmailed, bullied online for 1 and a half years by this woman.”
In his last post, he shared a screenshot of a message sent by the same woman to the 36-year-old actor.
