Mehwish Hayat schooled Pakistani-Canadian columnist and full-time Twitter troll Tarek Fatah for misrepresenting a scene from her 2018 film Load Wedding.
Tarek Fatah, who is known for regularly tweeting and making media appearances in which he rails against Pakistan and Islam, posted a video on his Twitter in which a woman is seen refusing a polio worker’s request to inoculate her child.
“It’s a scene from my movie Load Wedding, the polio worker is me and that woman an actress. Through the film we were raising awareness of hte issue. Glad to see our performances were so convincing,” wrote Mehwish.
Thank u for giving ur 2 cents on this but pls first verify the source b4 posting next time. It’s a scene frm my movie”loadwedding”,the polio worker is me & that woman an actress.Through the film we were raising awareness of the issue.Glad 2 see our performances were so convincing https://t.co/ididoJJcxL
— Mehwish Hayat TI (@MehwishHayat) January 15, 2020
Tarek didn’t acknowledge his error nor Mehwish’s correction or any of the hundreds of people calling him out, for that matter. He did, however, delete his tweet around midday, which may be just as well.
Twitter was quick to fact-check him though.
https://twitter.com/HardeepAsrani/status/1217349622584070146
You are full of it, I have no time to follow another lying "Journalist"….34:57 is the scene https://t.co/wgFD1C3gMR
— Mattspear (@mattspear905) January 15, 2020
Dude, this is a movie scene from 'Load Wedding'. You are doing what you do best – embarrassing yourself.
Here is the response from the female lead of the movie:https://t.co/XQhYELGmdE
— Nazir Hussain (@nazir309) January 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/shah_muzaffar_/status/1217316682131075072
Another angle of the scene being shot shows the cameras, crew and lighting in frame, with a crowd of onlookers in the foreground.
https://twitter.com/Mnavax/status/1217267681990184961
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