Jaaved Jaaferi’s son Meezaan lashes out at rich friends for not supporting noble cause: ‘People spend lakhs on alcohol, drugs’

Meezan Jaaferi, who was disturbed after the recent fires in Mumbai, personally visited the affected families and distributed ration packets. He was upset that not a single one of his rich friends came forward to help.

Meezan Jaaferi urged people to help the families affected in the Mumbai fires. (Photo: Meezan/Instagram)

Actor Meezaan Jaaferi took to his Instagram account and revealed that he was left disappointed when he requested his friends in the industry to help him in a noble cause. Meezan, in a lengthy post spoke, about the fires that wrecked the slums of Appa Pada Malad East. The actor said that he personally went to the affected areas, where over 2000 families had lost their homes. Meezan is actor Jaaved Jaaferi’s son.

The actor was disappointed when he tried to get support from his friends, but none of them responded. He said it upset him that the same people who won’t spend Rs 4000 per month on the affected families will spend lakhs on food and shopping, and also on drugs and alcohol.

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A disappointed Meezan wrote, “There were a few members of @mumbaipolice who said if we’d like to help then we should print out chits and distribute them so that we can distribute supplies in a systematic way. I decided to ask my friends for help and to my surprise not even one came forward. It got me extremely upset to see that people go out and spend thousands/lakhs on a dinner or a party or alcohol or drugs or shopping or whatever it is. But people refused to give Rs.4000 for a families food ration for a month. Im not trying to preach and honestly didn’t want to tell anyone anything anymore as this had really upset me.”

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He went on to reveal that he organised 200 ration packets and urged everybody to help in whatever way possible. He added, “We then went the next day to distribute the chits we had printed and on personally going there and seeing the state these people are living in gave me a reality check and got me more adamant to continue this task.”

Meezaan made his acting debut with the film Malaal. He was also seen in Hungama 2.

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