Singer Shweta Pandit Accuses Anu Malik Of Harassing Her at the Age Of 15
#MeToo movement in India has ultimately delivered the dark fact of Bollywood in front of human beings, however it’s just a start. The movement is gaining momentum with every passing day and extra humans are exposing more celebs who tried to se*ual harass them.
Bollywood singer Shweta Pandit has come ahead and has recounted the dark experience she had with Anu Malik whilst she gave her voice check on the age of 15. Shweta took to social media and wrote a notice in which she accused Anu Malik of asking a kiss from her.
Sharing the details of the event and the mental trauma she confronted due to it, she wrote-
It has taken plenty in me to open up this wound again and speak up in opposition to this paedophile and sexual predator. It become the year 2000 when i was launched as a lead singer with ‘Mohabbatein‘ (become the youngest singer again then in the Indian music industry) and was seeking to get different top songs to follow up with the fulfillment of that soundtrack and the incredible welcome it gave me within the music industry. I got a call from Anu Malik’s then supervisor (Mustafa) to come to Empire Studio in Andheri someday in mid-2001. i was thrilled like several singer might be. I used to recognize his track and exercise his songs for hours and look up to him lower back then! He became recording a group track with Sunidhi and Shaan for the movie ‘Awara Pagal Deewana‘ whilst my mom and i walked within the screen room. He advised me to wait inside the small cabin inner in which singers sang at Empire studio. It changed into just him and me there.”
She continues to share her ordeal-
“He requested me to sing some thing with none music as he desired to listen my voice. I take into account I sang the identify tune of ‘Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega‘ as a voice take a look at for this guy. I sang it properly so he stated, “I’ll provide you with this song with Sunidhi and Shaan however first supply me a kiss now.” He then smiled, what I’d bear in mind because the maximum evil grin I’ve visible. I went numb and light within the face. i used to be handiest 15 years antique then, nevertheless in school. Can every person even consider what it felt like at that second? It felt like someone had just stabbed me in my stomach. I noted this man as ‘Anu uncle‘, he knew my entire circle of relatives for decades and knew us as a reputable gharana of musicians for generations who have given our whole lives committed to tune for 4 generations.”
She similarly tells-
He addressed my father as ‘Mandheer bhai’. And he does this to his bhai’s daughter? He has 2 younger daughters of his personal and that’s how he handled a fifteen-yr-old minor girl. It turned into the worst enjoy of my existence and that i may want to by no means speak approximately it even to my mother and father. I may want to in no way ask any help to heal but was depressed for months. I cried endlessly after this incident and it affected my psyche as a young girl, a lot that I could have left the enterprise however I re-notion and fought with my will-power that why must I depart my finest ardour for a paedophile like him but I still kept suffering for years to bury this inner me. i am certain many singers have been exploited with the aid of him as he is a acknowledged call for doing this to singers. I’d urge the ones singers/ladies to proportion their memories too.”Had to go back to my worst memory as a teenage girl today to write this and speak up - its now or never. This is my #MeToo and have to warn young girls about #AnuMalik & let you know your #TimesUp @IndiaMeToo— Shweta Pandit (@ShwetaPandit7) October 17, 2018
Thank you @sonamohapatra for speaking up about him & supporting this pic.twitter.com/e261pGQyEq
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