Every Issue Doesn’t Need Quarrelling: Sonu Nigam

Every Issue Doesn’t Need Quarrelling: Sonu Nigam

Mumbai: Sonu Nigam’s Pakistan comment and the singer backing Anu Malik hasn’t gone down well with fellow singer Sona Mohapatra. But Sonu says every issue “doesn’t need quarrelling around it”. During a summit, Sonu talked about why so many songs are being remixed these days. “Sometimes, I feel like it would be better if I was from Pakistan. At least I would get offers from India,” he joked. He also said: “If you say, ‘Anu Malik met me this morning’, that’s fine. You accused him without any proof; let’s accept that too. Had he (Anu Malik) wanted to say anything, he could have said a lot. But he did not.

“If I say that you misbehaved with me, you will ask me for proof. But there’s no proof, right? Despite that, people are respecting the accusers, who are tarnishing Anu Malik’s name. But how can you ban him? How can you snatch his bread and butter? How can you torture his family?” Following Sonu’s comments, Sona, who had accused Anu of sexual misconduct, tweeted on Wednesday that she felt “so let down hearing him talk like this”.

The wife of composer Ram Sampath also wrote: “So much sympathy for a millionaire losing work? So much empathy for his privileged family being ‘tortured’? How about scores of girls and women he tortured? Multiple testimonies not proof enough?” On Sonu’s Pakistan comment, she said: “Are Arijit Singh, Badshah, Vishal Dadlani from Pakistan though?

“You’ve had your moment under the sun dear. India anoints a new ‘Male Super Star’ every 3/4/5 years without fail. Don’t blame the Pakistani artistes. Also do not mix up art and music with politics and idealogy.” While “maintaining the decorum”, Sonu responded to her tweets by saying: “The respectable lady vomitting on Twitter, is the wife of someone who I consider very close to me, so although she has forgotten the relationship, I’d like to maintain the decorum.” Women with “frankness and courage, shaming their oppressors”, is a refreshing sign of changing times, he pointed out.

“Women have been long oppressed throughout the course of history and it’s high time to end this mindset of treating them like properties or trophies, and now they walk hand-in-hand and shoulder-to-shoulder with men,” Sonu said. He also asked: “it’s okay to accuse someone, but to punish someone? How is that right? Isn’t it the job of the law to punish?”

“Every issue doesn’t need quarrelling around it forever. Look at the positive side. Men, henceforth, have learnt to ‘behave’ with women. Some strong women’s sacrifice has done the magic. And that paves the way for a peaceful and safe work environment in the present and for the future. After the shaming and exposing, we should let the law take its course.” “I have always been of the opinion that everyone should be welcomed in India. I’m very friendly with Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Atif Aslam. Shafqat Amanat Ali has a lovely voice and I’m of this belief that everyone must get equal respect in our country, but in the same breath, I’d like to add that Indian artistes should be given the same facilities as their foreign counterparts. If that doesn’t happen, then it’s unfair,” Sonu said. (IANS)

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