Sona Mohapatra Accuses Fellow Singer Kailash Kher Of Sexual Misconduct

Bhubaneswar: Sona Mohapatra spilled the beans on her #MeToo moment, accusing fellow singer Kailash Kher of having harassed her.

A few other women, including a journalist, had accused him of sexual misconduct recently.

Sona posted about Kher’s alleged misconduct in a series of tweets. She claimed that Kher placed his hand on her thigh while she once met him to discuss a ‘forthcoming concert’ with lines like, ‘You’re so beautiful’, ‘feel so good that a musician got you (Ram), not an actor’. .

She said, this, however, did not deter Kher. On her way to the venue in Dhaka, he allegedly kept calling her and later asked her join him in his room.

She further tweeted, “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 Ram Sampath to create a personal track for him didn’t stop him. The hubris of such men.”

She questioned how long and how many women Kher would apologise to. “Start now. Will take a lifetime,” she wrote.

She further said it was disease that he had.

When questioned on social media for having spoken about this so late, she said it’s her life and her choice.

“To all the people accusing me of being so late about bringing up Kailash Kher’s bad behaviour, I say… my life. My choice. Now go, buzz off. (P.S> If I started tweeting about every creep I encounter in life here, I would be doing this job full time),” she wrote.

When accused of sexual misconduct before, Kailash had said that he was “extremely disappointed” by the accusations. “For all those who know me and have come across me, will know how much I respect humanity, especially women, even more for the ones who work in media since their work is difficult,” he said.