Odia Singer Sona Mohapatra Tweets Mumbai Police Over Threatening Mails
Dear @MumbaiPolice I have received a threatening notice from the Madariya Sufi Foundation to remove my music video Tori Surat from all communication mediums. They claim that the video is vulgar,will flare communal tensions.I need to know whom to write in my response to at ur end
— SONA (@sonamohapatra) April 30, 2018
The Sufi Madariya foundation has also called me a ‘regular offender’ & says that they find another five year old Video of me singing a Sufiana Kalam – Piya Se Naina on coke studio insulting Islam because I’m ‘dressed exposing my body’ & playing westernised music. @MumbaiPolice
— SONA (@sonamohapatra) April 30, 2018
Thank you. Would request you to please give me the correct police email id so that I can forward their threatening mail & also my response to them. Will happily share my phone number also but I am worried to do this on social media. ??? https://t.co/yT1WQoO8ZH
— SONA (@sonamohapatra) April 30, 2018
The last time I shared my phone number with the @MumbaiPolice was when I was getting rape, mutilation, death & acid attack threats during the Salman controversy. I am sorry to say that no real help or remedy came my way sir, @CPMumbaiPolice . Thankful I am safe despite the same.
— SONA (@sonamohapatra) April 30, 2018
Sona, singer of ‘Ambarsariya’ from the movie Fukrey, had recently compiled an album that includes songs from Sufiana Kalam by Baba Bulleh Shah in Raag Bhairavi. Her song ‘Tori Surat’ has been inspired by poet Amir Khusrow.
In his reaction, president of the Madariya Sufi Foundation, Sameer Boghani, said while there is a certain format to represent Sufi culture and music, Sona went ahead with the video without taking permission from it.
Replying to a question on whether the Foundation has given any threats to the singer, he said, “We will reply to Mumbai police when they approach us”.
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