Actor Adnan Siddiqui is under fire after drawing a bizarre analogy between women and flies in a Ramadan transmission on live television.

Siddiqui was a guest on Shan-e-Suhoor with Nida Yasir, when a fly landed on his hand. When the host suggested that the fly might have been attracted to Siddiqui’s sweetness, he took the opportunity to go way overboard.

Warning that women should not mind what he was about to say, Siddiqui then said something that perhaps every woman would mind to hear.

“Women and flies are kind of the same examples,” he said, to an audible gasp from Yasir.

“The more you run after them, the more they’ll run away from you,” the actor added.

“But if you sit back,” Siddiqui said while folding his arms, “they will come and sit on your hand like this fly did.” He added that he had tried to catch the fly but could not, but the flay came to him when he stopped trying.

The host awkwardly moved on from the subject with a fixed smile, saying she did not want such straightforward people on her show.

However, social media was not so kind.

“Many might tell me that ‘It’s just a joke’ but the 2nd worst country in Gender Gap Index, in a country with highest honor k1lling cases, such statements trivialize women,” one user wrote.

Reham Khan called the remarks a matter of deep-rooted misogyny.

“Wonder who he has been chasing that he has so much experience of being given the cold shoulder? How does he know this?” she wrote.

“Isn’t he a married man?”