I was angry at Hamza Ali Abbasi's statements on my item song: Zhalay Sarhadi

The star reportedly told him off for using her name to make a point

Zhalay Sarhadi has given her two cents on the topic of item numbers and how it felt to be doing one. The model-turned-actor had been speaking to Ahsan Khan on his chat show when she began recalling her achievements, speaking in hindsight about life and how she has managed acting, modeling and fulfilled her desire to do everything.

With regard to this, Khan reiterated how she had also done an "item number," to which Sarhadi humorously responded, "Even though I was quite bad at it, I did it and aroused quite a controversy."

The Chalay Thay Saath star's statement was hardly shocking, given all the hullabaloo surrounding item songs that has happened in the past. However, there was one catch.

"Weirdly enough, in my case, the controversy was that I wasn't wearing revealing clothes in the song," Sarhadi said. Khan then questioned her as to how a fully dressed woman could be controversial to which she said, "One should ask Hamza Ali Abbasi."

In 2015, Abbasi had shared a post on Facebook saying, "I am tremendously proud of Zhalay Sarhadi for not taking her clothes off in her performance and proud of Yasir Jaswal for not going along with the emerging trend of revealing item numbers in Pakistani films."

The fact that the actor had specifically mentioned how the problem was not the item songs themselves but the attire of the women in them had made celebrities and several social media users call him out back then. And of course, it had made Sarhadi the most uncomfortable.

The model went on to reveal Abbasi had complimented her in person too, repeating exactly what he had said and how. "Zhalay, I am so proud of you! You were completely dressed.' I said what? He said, 'In the song, you were completely dressed.' So I said, 'Thank you'."

She continued in an awkward tone, "It was all good until Abbasi wrote it on his Twitter, complimenting me with a statement saying, 'Other women should also follow suit,' after which I became angry and told him blatantly not to use me as an example to score his own point."

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