Fahad Mustafa vs BTS ARMY: Actor draws online ire for criticising his daughter's love of the K-pop band.

The stars of upcoming film Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad, Fahad Mustafa and Mahira Khan, have been on a journey to promote their new film but during a recent interview, Mustafa had people talking for all the wrong reasons. He spoke about his daughter Fatima being an ARMY - one of the unfailingly loyal fans of K-pop supergroup BTS - and how he doesn't really like it very much. That didn't go down well online.

On Friday, the stars appeared on Gup Shup with Fuchsia where they talked about the film and their experience overall. While their acting will be put to test soon in cinemas on Eid, Mustafa revealed that his daughter, Fatima, "doesn't really care [about him] anymore because she's 11 now" but his son is currently trying things out around Mustafa to get his attention. "He tries a lot and sometimes over-loves because I'm close to my daughter and now him. So regardless, he follows me without a purpose. Fatima, she's a BTS fan so she doesn't care."

Upon being asked if he has ever heard the K-pop sensation's music, Mustafa replied with a straight up "no, hell no" to which the host asked why. He said it's his "choice". The host said that if his daughter is listening to BTS, then so should he, to which the Load Wedding actor said he doesn't even know his daughter's favourite song by the band. "I called them Behind The Scenes band and she responded with 'no papa!' It's...I don't know Bangtan So tol something, I don't know. She speaks Korean, she doesn't speak Sindhi, what is wrong with these people?"

He wants her to speak her mother tongue instead. Khan added to the conversation and said that it's a "big thing", especially K-dramas, which she hasn't seen.

Their remarks irked many fans of the band who took to Twitter on a mission to call...

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