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#MeToo India: Tamil Lyricist Vairamuthu Denies All Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct Against Him On Twitter

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After Bollywood, Comedian, Journalism India’s #MeToo movement reached the film industry in the south. Lyricist Vairamuthu being accused of sexual harassment by several women. Journalist Sandhya Menon first shared instances involving sexual harassment to call out harassers through their social media accounts.

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Yesterday several women came against the lyricist and shared their story of sexual misconduct. Vairamuthu denied all the allegation against him.

The disgrace that spreads the reputation of the well-known people is now all over the country. For the most part I have been constantly humiliated; This is one of them. I do not regard anything out of truth; The time will tell you the truth.

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It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

#MeToo India: Another Comedian Jeeveshu Ahluwalia Accused Of Sexual Misconduct, Apologies On Twitter

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After several comedians were accused of sexual misconduct on social media, Jeeveshu Ahluwalia is also accused of misbehaving by a woman.

The woman wrote anonymously — Jeeveshu asked to meet for dinner. I had one glass of wine and in his car afterwards. I was terribly drunk. He stopped the car somewhere and forced me to give him a blow job. He then dropped me home.

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Wherein the woman wrote anonymously that during her meeting with Ahluwalia for an interview, he made her uncomfortable by asking her age, whether she was seeing someone and why she could not wear “hot dresses”.

The comedian apologized on twitter and later released a statement:

If I have made any woman uncomfortable with my words, actions, I m deeply sorry & will continue to be. I don’t think there can be ever any acceptable explanation or justification fr making a women feel the way I perhaps may have & therefore, I m my offering any. Again my sincerest apologies

The talent management agency that Ahluwalia was associated with also released a statement saying that they had mutually decided to part ways.

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

 

#MeToo India: Popular Tamil Lyricist Vairamuthu Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Several Women’s

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After Bollywood, Comedian, Journalism India’s #MeToo movement reached the film industry in the south. Lyricist Vairamuthu being accused of sexual harassment by several women. Journalist Sandhya Menon first shared instances involving sexual harassment to call out harassers through their social media accounts.

Read: All the names who joined list of Shame

I was 18. I had to work with him for a project, and he seemed nice. I respected him as he is a legend, famous poet, national award winner. In the pretext of explaining lyrics, he came to me, hugged me and kissed me. I did not know what to do. I said OK sir, thank you and ran from his house. —The woman who chose to stay anonymous recalled.


Chinmayi too shared this on Twitter and wrote, The industry knows; the men know. #TimesUp. The time is bloody up. This has happened to multiple people — Chinmayi said in an interview.

Another allegation — ‏He is a Predator. I was hardly 18/19 years old. When in the pretext of appreciating my work called me to his office. But soon I entered the locked the door behind him and tried to touch me. I made an excuse and ran away.

One more on Vairamuthu — He ordered buttermilk for me. When I started drinking, he said a little bit is still on my lips. He came closer, and he almost kissed. I ran away grabbing my phone and bag. Later warned all my friends.

#MeToo India : Popular Tamil Lyricist Vairamuthu Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Several Women's

From the girl’s hostel owned by the poet — My friend lives in Vairamuthu Hostel in Kodambakkam, and a lot of girls told stories of him trying to exploit them.

Several cases of Sexual Harassment already came in light against the Lyricist Vairamuthu. More stories may be coming out.

Most of the south film industry remained silent, but few of them spoke out against Vairamuthu.

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

#MeToo India: Flora Saini Shares Her Story Of Harassment At The Hands Of Producer Gaurang Doshi

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Acting as a ghost in recently released Stree, the Bollywood actress Flora Saini has come forward to share her story of harassment at the hands of producer Gaurang Doshi.

She shared her story on the Facebook page. She also saluted all the women’s coming out and sharing there assaulted story.

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In 2007 she was dating the producer Gaurang Doshi and narrating her story she wrote.

Valentine’s day 2007 beaten up by a known producer “Gaurang Doshi’ who I loved n was dating then .. this was the last of the one year abuse I took..came out with a fractured jaw n a scarred soul for life..

#MeToo India : Flora Saini Shares Her Story Of Harassment At The Hands Of Producer Gaurang Doshi
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Explaining why she didn’t complain about it earlier, she says,

I realized me talking about it ,that time, just went against me ,cos he was the powerful one n nobody wanted to believe some girl who was relatively new in the industry, it was his word against mine ,and of course, his word mattered.

She Further added:

He threatened me that he will make sure I never work in the industry again n much more.. n he did his best to make me believe it too.. I was replaced in films, people didn’t quiet wanna even meet me or let me audition

She added that there were more girls who were also suffered the same way:

Mind u there were girls after me who were made to suffer the same way by the same man , they called me for help but weren’t brave enough to even come out n speak for themselves

Read Her Full Post On Facebook: 


There’s been no reaction from so far from the producer.

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

A Total Of 36 Girls Stop Going To School Because Of Eve Teasing In Ekpadhaha, Bihar

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Just days after 34 girls were beaten up, now a total of 36 girls stopped going to school due to the harassment they face on their way to school. The incident is said to be of Saharsa school in Ekpadhaha village.

The latest incident of harassment was reported on October 4 when two girls, were stopped by the man when on the way to school, then assaulted them.

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Girls stopped going School Because Of Eve Teasing In Ekpadhaha, Bihar
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When some boys, including one of the victim’s brothers, came over to rescue them, accused thrashed them terribly and later ran away. One of the boys returned home with a fractured hand.

One of the victim talking to Aaj Tak said — Eve teasing is a primary problem here. All this is going on from last four years. They would hurl abuses, pass on lewd comments and sing obscene Bhojpuri songs. It was very depressing for me, she added. Girls remain quiet because they feared being dropped out of the school.

Girls stopped going School Because Of Eve Teasing In Ekpadhaha, Bihar
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When the family members of the victim filed a complaint in the police station, the police officials have not even visited the village for investigation till October 4. The police have not yet made any arrest in the case.

These girls are now seeking an expecting helps from the Bihar Chief Minister Nitesh Kumar for protection from eve-teasers so that they can start their school.

MeToo India: All The Names Who Are Accused Of Sexual Harassment

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The year-old #MeToo movement is currently is making a lot of buzz in India. One after other names are coming out. Tanushree Dutta’s accusations of sexual harassment against veteran actor Nana Patekar, gave initial courage for every woman to speak up. MeToo India is going on.

In recent days other Bollywood figures, a comedian, a best-selling author and top journalists have all found themselves accused of abusing their positions to misbehave towards women. From all over names are coming out.

As the movement gathers more steam, females in the industry are coming forward exposing more names.

Here are the Indian celebs who have been accused as part of the #MeToo campaign in India:

Utsav Chakraborty

Utsav Chakraborty accused of sexually harassing minor girls encouraging them for sexting. He apologised on Twitter and later removed all the tweets. Read Full Story

Anurag Verma 

Anurag Verma from HuffPost India apologies for sexually harassing. He apologised saying I have also used the “send nudes” term very loosely. For me, it was a meme back then, but I didn’t realise the damage I was doing by sending it to people. Read Full Story

Jatin Das

Jatin Das — a well-known painter, has been accused by three women’s namely Nisha Bora, journalist Anushree Majumdar and Garusha Katoch, how he tried to grab them and kissed them. However, her daughter Nandita Das is actively supporting #MeToo.  Read Full Story.

MJ Akbar

Once the name of MJ Akbar came than allegations started to come thick and fast and more than 20 women’s told about being harassed by the Central Minister. In hours several allegations against MJ Akbar came in. Read Full Story.

Vinod Dua

Filmmaker Nishtha Jain on Facebook post wrote a detailed post recalling the 1989 incident wherein an interview Vinod Dua lewd sexual joke. Later He said, he wanted to talk and asked me to enter his car. I could even settle down he began slobbering all over my face. Mallika Dua Daughter of Vinod Dua is strongly supporting #MeToo. Read Full Story.

Ajit Thakur

Supriya said she was called for a meeting at another executive’s place at 8 pm where a producer and an actress joined them. Then, she was asked about her sex life by Ajit Thakur and later coerced into consuming alcohol even after her saying no. He touched her inappropriately. Read Full Story.

KR Sreenivas

KR Sreenivas, a resident editor with The Times of India, the name is taken by multiple women’s. One says “He lays his hand on my thigh and goes, ‘my wife and I have grown apart. She doesn’t understand me”. Read Full Story.

Rajat Kapoor

Rajat Kapoor wanted to shoot in an empty house. Issues apology on Twitter. He misbehaved through the phone and asked her questions such as ‘are you as sexy as you sound’ and asked about her body measurements. Read Full Story

Vikas Bahl

Another name from Bollywood is the director of queen Vikas Bahl. Total of 3 allegations are made against him. The third actress came with the heavy accusation against Vikas Bahl revelling that at a party pretend to be drunk and tried to kiss her. Read Full Story

Alok Nath

This name is the most shocking one, and allegations are not only of sexual harassment but also of rape against Vinita Nanda. Alok Nath reacted saying — Neither I’m denying nor do I would agree with it. It (rape)must happen, but someone else would have done it. Read Full Story

Piyush Mishra

A former newspaper staffer Ketki Joshi in a Facebook post came against Piyush Mishra. In 2014 she met him as a fan in a party where Piyush Mishra was invited as a chief guest. He started light flirting in front of approximately 20-25 people. He grabbed her hand and started rubbing his hand against her. Read Full Story.

Anu Malik

Sona Mohapatra lashed out Anu Malik on the Instagram post calling him serial predator for years. Now Shweta Pandit accused Anu Malik of asking a kiss in exchange of a song when she was just 15. However, Anu Malik’s lawyer had denied all the allegations. Read Full Story.

Sajid Khan

Sajid Khan name is also included in the list. The first time I interviewed Sajid Khan in the early 2000s, he called me to his house he shared w/his sister. Thru the interview, he talked about how large his p**** is & how he knew how to satisfy a woman. Read Full Story.

Subhash Kapoor

The actress has accused the director Subhash Kapoor of molesting her in which she even slapped him. Geetika on her twitter handle shared a video in which she named Subhash Kapoor as her molester and also labelled video as “Subhash Kapoor’s true face.” Read Full Story.

Kailash Kher

As of now, Kailash Kher has been accused by several women’s of being touching them inappropriately sending them flirty message. Recently a girl said that Kailash Kher sent flirtatious messages to her, and termed him as a predator and creep. Read Full Story.

Bhusan Kumar

An anonymous woman on Twitter has alleged that Kumar had asked her to make sexual connections with her instead of singing three of her production house ‘Production House’. Bhusan Said —“I am worried and sad to know. Women have dragged my name into the campaign” #MeToo “. Read Full Story.

Lasith Malinga

Anonymously a woman said, during IPL He pushed me in the bed and proceeded to climb on my face. I closed my eyes and mouth, but he used my face. Hotel staff knocked on the door. I ran into washroom washed my face and left as soon as hotel staff left. Read Full Story.

Subhash Ghai

He took me to the Fariyas hotel. Where he often go to write, and they have a suite ready for him. I was wobbly, but he held me and took me to the suite. He took off my jeans, and he mounted me. I was trying to scream, but he put his hand on my mouth. Read Full Story.

Luv Ranjan

An actress has anonymously mentioned the incident during the audition. In 2010 Ranjan asked her to strip down for him. At that time auditions were going on for Pyaar Ka Panchanama. Read Full Story.

Aditi Mittal

After the number of comedians, another comedian Kaneez Surka has accused comedian Aditi Mittal of sexually harassing her when she hosted a comedy show at Andheri Base two years ago. Read Full Story.

Vairamuthu

Lyricist Vairamuthu being accused of sexual harassment by several women. In the pretext of explaining lyrics, he came to me, hugged me and kissed me. I did not know what to do. I said OK sir, thank you and ran from his house. Several women shared their incident of sexual harassment against Vairamuthu. Read Full Story.

Nana Patekar

This is all where it started. Tanushree Dutta spoke out about a decade old incident where Nana Patekar along with few names is accused. However, Nana has denied all the allegation. Read Full Story.

AIB

From Utsav Chakraborty, AIB is involved. Co-founder of AIB after receiving a complaint against Utsav didn’t react. Yesterday AIB parted ways with Tanmay Bhat And Gursimran Khamba until further notice. Read Full Story.

Gaurang Doshi

Bollywood actress Flora Saini has come forward to share her story of harassment at the hands of producer Gaurang Doshi. Narrating her story she wrote, Valentine’s day 2007 beaten up by a known producer “Gaurang Doshi’ who I loved n was dating then. Read Full Story.

Jeeveshu Ahluwalia

Jeeveshu Ahluwalia is also accused of misbehaving by a woman. Wherein the woman wrote anonymously that during her meeting with Ahluwalia for an interview, he made her uncomfortable by asking her age, whether she was seeing someone and why she could not wear “hot dresses”. Read Full Story.

Thee are few more names in the list including Mayank Jain,  author Chetan Bhagat. The latest name came is  Varun Grover, and no one knows many names can be added in the list of Shame.

#MeToo India: Alok Nath Reacts To Rape Accusations Against Him

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Yesterday TV writer, producer and director Vinita Nanda, who has now come out with an elaborate account of not just being harassed by the male lead actor of her yesteryear hit show Tara, but also being allegedly raped by him. Social media was in a state of shock after the accusation. However, Alok Nath has reacted about allegation while talking to ABP Live.

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Yesterday in a lengthy Facebook post Vinita Nanda narrated the horrific incident which she experienced two decades ago.

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Unlike Tanushree Dutta’s case CINTAA has reacted strongly and extended full support to Vinita Nanda.

Alok Nath Said :

Neither I’m denying nor do I would agree with it. It (rape)must happened, but someone else would have done it. Well, I do not want to talk about it as for the matter if it out, it’ll be stretched.

What do I have to do with people.? People will say anything to spoil my images — He said when asked about how fans have been reacting to this news.

He further stated — At one time she used to be a good friend. Today she said such a big thing. It was me who made her what she is. It is useless to react on allegations as in today’s world whatever a woman says that will be considered. In such situation, it would be wrong to say anything.

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

#MeToo India: Bollywood Director Vikas Bahl Accused Of sexual Misconduct, Amazon Parted Ways

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Since the Tanushree Dutta spoke out about harassment on Nana Patekar, which initially started India’s own MeToo movement. After that women came out can speak about what they have faced. Several stand up comedians, as well as names from Bollywood came out. Since beginning AIB is heavily involved in there roles about not doing anything when they could have.

However, the latest allegations of sexual misbehaviour are against film director and producer Vikas Bahl. According to HuffPost, the actor was charged by a woman employee at Phantom films for sexually assaulting her, during their promotional trip to Goa.

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Standing firm by the woman, ‘Queen’ actress doubled the accusations on the director. She held the 47-year-old guilty of burying his face in her neck and smelling her hair, whenever they greeted each other with a hug.

Bollywood Director Vikas Bahl Accused Of sexual Misconduct,
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Later the third actress came with the heavy allegation against Vikas Bahl revelling that at a party pretend to be drunk and tried to kiss her.

One day he was having a party where a lot of people I knew were going so I felt safe. But he got drunk (or pretended to be), and he forcibly tried to kiss me on the lips, I pushed him and left immediately, and he acted not to see me leaving. At least 20 other people were at this party. I left in a rush went to my boyfriend’s house because I was so disgusted, but he kept sending me texts – saying “Why did you leave, I could have dropped you”. I wasn’t drinking, smoking, smoking up or doing anything, had just had my dinner and gone with some writer buddies. That’s his strategy, he pretends to be drunk.

As a result of accusations on Vikas Bahl, Phantom is closed. Also, he is dropped from an upcoming Amazon series.

Hrithik Roshan, It is impossible for me to work with any person if he/she is guilty of such grave misconduct.


There’s been no reaction from Vikas Bahl so far on the allegations.

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

#MeToo India: AIB Sends Tanmay Bhat And Gursimran Khamba On Leave Untill Further Notice

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Since the Tanushree Dutta spoke out about harassment on Nana Patekar, which initially started India own MeToo movement. After that women came out and spoke about what they have faced. Several stand up comedians, as well as names from Bollywood came out. Since starting AIB is heavily involved in their roles about not doing anything when they could have.

Hotstar cancels All India Bakchod show, ‘On Air with AIB’ with immediate effect.

They have been sending out statement one after another giving clarity on the matter.

AIB co-founder Tanmay Bhatt step away from his association with AIB”, the group said in a statement today. He did not act on complaints against Utsav Chakraborty, a YouTuber and ex-AIB member who was called out on social media last week. Along with Gursimran Khamba, another founder-member facing allegations of sex harassment on social media will also go on leave said AIB 

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AIB Sends Tanmay Bhat And Gursimran Khamba On Leave Untill Further Notice

We have been closely monitoring the sequence of events on social media around the allegations against the group and also our Co-founder and CEO, Tanmay Bhat. We cannot overlook Tanmay’s role and in light of this, he will be stepping away from his association with AIB until further notice. This implies that Tanmay will not be involved with the day to day functioning of AIB or in any other manner,” AIB said in a statement.

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

#MeToo India: Rajat Kapoor Accused Of Sexual Harassment, Wanted To Shoot In Empty House. Issues Apology On Twitter

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Since Tanushree Dutta spoke out about harassment on Nana Patekar, which initially started India own MeToo movement. After that women came out and spoke about what they have faced. Several stand up comedians, as well as names from Bollywood came out. Rajat Kapoor recently issued an apology on Twitter after he has been accused of misbehaving with three women in three different incidents.

A Twitter user shared a post recently where two women had accused the actor of misconduct. One was a journalist who stated that while she was talking to the actor via a telephonic interview, he misbehaved through the phone and asked her questions such as ‘are you as sexy as you sound’ and asked about her body measurements.

Read: All the names who joined list of Shame

Rajat Kapoor Accused Of Sexual Harassment
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Another woman narrated an incident where the actor would continuously call her for a film’s shoot and asked her if she knew an empty house. He wanted her to shoot for a movie with her in an empty house.

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Since these post went Rajat Kapoor took to the microblogging site to issue an apology

I am sorry from the bottom of my heart- and sad that I was the cause of this hurt
to another human being.

If there is one thing more important to me than even my work,
it is to be a good human being.
And I have tried to be that person.
And now, I will try harder.

All my life I have tried to be a decent man, to do the right thing.
If however, I have slipped and through my actions or words
caused pain or hurt or trauma to absolutely anybody, please accept my
apology.

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.

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