Mohapatra alleges sexual harassment by Kailash Kher
Mumbai: Singer Sona Mohapatra has come forward to level sexual harassment allegations against Kailash Kher.
Mohapatra shared her experience on Twitter days after a journalist came forward to allege inappropriate behaviour by Kher. Describing the incident, Mohapatra tweeted, “I met Kailash for coffee in Prithvi Café to discuss a forthcoming concert where both our bands were playing & after the usual, a hand on my thigh with lines likes, your so beautiful, feel so good that a ‘ musician got you' ( Ram) not an actor. I left not soon after.”
She claimed that despite being rebuffed, Kher continued to harass her, even during a concert in Dhaka. “That did not deter Kailash Kher though. On landing in Dhaka and on my way to the venue with the organisers, keeps calling me and when I don't pick up, calls the organisers phone to get through to me and asks me to ' skip' the soundcheck and join him in his room instead to ' catch up',” Mohapatra wrote. “The fact that Kailash had sung in my studios and for many projects in which I was the producer and knew me to be as strong as I am or that he had only recently taken a favour from my partner @ RamSampathLive to create a personal track for him didn't stop him. # TheHubris of such # men” she said in another tweet. She said Kher should not describe himself as a simple person who is devoted to music. “The shamelessness of this man. To call himself ' simple', ' devoted to music' and even claiming amnesia. If this chap could dare try this stunt with me, it's a disease that he has and I can vouch for not only these two women's stories but hundreds more he would've have preyed on,” she wrote. Kher was unavailable for a response when reached out. Earlier the singer has also been accused of harassment by journalist Natasha Hemr- ajani. To which Kher rep- lied, “For all those who know me, will know how much I respect humanity, especially women.”
He kept calling me and when I didn’t pick up, he dialed organisers... He asked me to join him in his room to ‘ catch up’. — Sona Mohapatra,