Well-known Pakistani author Anwar Maqsood has talked about how cancer-stricken artist Naila Jaffrery requested him for assistance as well as the industry’s absence of financial security for its artists.
Talking to glossetc.com, the 85-year-old discussed over Jaffrery’s concerns of the media world not giving proper payments to stars whose works have re-run on TV channels.
Via a video from a hospital, the veteran artist had requested for payments from her dramas so that she could pay for her hospital bills and other treatment requirements.
“Artists need to create a fund where they can donate a certain percentage of their earnings to people in the fraternity who may be in need. The industry needs to stop being selfish where every man and woman is scrambling to make individual profits. It needs to get more united,” he said.
“Khalida had called me and told me that she had never worked with me and she wanted me to write a play for her. I then wrote my drama ‘Half Plate’ and I think that it was Khalida’s acting in it was her most memorable, most outstanding. She passed away 10 days after the drama aired on TV,” he said.
He further mentioned that now Jeffrery has approached him with a same appeal.
“Now, Naila has called me and asked me write a play for her. I told her that I will try. May Allah grant her health and a long life.”
