Celebrities have been using their social media to keep themselves visible in the public eye in these testing times. With the lock-down in place and social distancing being heavily encouraged, celebrities’ online networks have become their sole outlets to connect with their fans and to keep them entertained. Stars, singers and other celebs are doing so by staging everything from live concerts to interactive chat sessions with their fanbase.

However, it looks like these activities are now dipping into the promotional territory instead of being just a gesture of goodwill. Yesterday, singer Bilal Saeed and the top model and actor Sabeeka Imam, last seen in Sherdil, got tangled into a somewhat strange exchange on their respective Instagram stories, which got all our attention.

The start

It started with Bilal Saeed posting screenshots from a video call that he was having with a pretty and all dolled up Sabeeka Imam with captions like he “might just apologize for the 1000th time” and “looks like will have to go to bed mad tonight“.

The next post was Bilal wondering about how girls think boys have come into the world just to apologize to them. It was followed by another screenshot from the video chat with Bilal captioning that he would not apologize whatsoever. Sabeeka was tagged in all these stories. She replied by posting Bilal’s question for her followers on her Instagram story, asking for advice on how to answer Bilal’s accusation.

Things take a weird turn

The situation was explained in another slew of story posts. Bilal posted a series on videos on his Instagram stories explaining what the whole exchange was all about. And from what Bilal said it can be safely inferred that apparently the reason Sabeeka got “mad” at Bilal was that he cut a call he was having with her to attend another to another one. According to Bilal, this was no big deal and he shouldn’t have to apologize for that.

What was most surprising was the way Bilal explained the whole situation. He did not limit himself to just explaining the reason why he was refusing to apologize. Instead, Bilal dropped hints about being forced to apologize by being emotionally blackmailed.

“We are already locked in due to quarantine. And in this situation if some person is fighting with you over trivial things and asking you to, “go find someone else”. So you tell, what should happen?” Bilal asked his followers in one of his many videos.

He seemed to drop the topic by saying that these “girl problems” have no solutions and promoted an online concert he was going to do later that night. Apparently, the issue was not dropped as he got the last word in with the message, “Girl you continue saying “go find someone else,” if one day I do find someone else you’d be the one left lamenting.”

It wasn’t the end

Sabeeka responded to Bilal’s long streak of stories with just one video in her defense. She posted on her Instagram story talking about how it’s “bad manners” to drop one call to attend another call and a person should apologize for such bad manners.

This got Bilal’s attention again and he posted Sabeeka’s response on his Instagram story. He commented about the “innocence” of Sabeeka’s response and pointed out her changed tunes.

“First it was all “go find someone else” and now this. Girls are master in the art of making boys feel guilty.”

Bilal Saeed even got to express his stance in the form of a quick few second long song where he sang that he has written many great love songs, but he has never written an apology. Sabeeka posted that song on her Instagram story with no further comment than an unimpressed Belle gif.

Staged drama?

It could be a very-well staged banter between the singer and the model as a sort of promotional tactic to gain attention for whatever product they plan on selling. Or it could be something serious. Regardless, it was certainly a bit odd to see a banter-ish back and forth between the two that is more common to actual couples instead of platonic friends.

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