Singer Sona Mohapatra, in a series of tweets, addressed the effects
of businessman Raj Kundra’s arrest in connection with a porn racket. The husband
of actor Shilpa Shetty has been remanded in police custody till July 27 for his
alleged involvement in the production and streaming of pornographic content.
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Posting videos of herself that appeared to have been taken
in a hotel room, with her new track Ek Din (Manhattan Memories) playing in the
background, Sona wrote on Twitter, “This video is Self-Directed,with full
consent,zero exploitation or human trafficking involved. So moral custodian’s
of #India ,do ponder about such matters in the current #hot #trending topic.
‘Ek Din-Manhattan Memories’ to celebrate my EQUAL billboard in Times Square
NYC.”
In another tweet, she spoke about how the porn case that
Kundra has been arrested in connection with has resulted in women who are
public figures being slut-shamed.
“Nothing showcases the #hypocrisy, toxicity of society more
than when #porn related news ends up giving people the licence to #slutshame
every #woman in the public domain? I directed these videos as an artistic
reaction.Freewill,Consent VS Exploitation/Trafficking! #India #LetsTalk.”
Sharing the third video, Sona wrote that it is unacceptable
for trolls to target everyone from Bollywood on the basis of Kundra’s arrest in
a porn case.
“The #RajKundra blow-up cannot be an excuse to throw lewd
comments into our timelines & say things like, you are from #Bollywood
& all of you are the same or other s**t. No one has a right to shame,touch
or do anything without our consent. Sounds simple enough? #India #LetsTalk,”
she wrote.
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In an Instagram post, Sona shared how after news of the porn
case, many were stigmatising ‘women in the public domain especially in the
entertainment industry’.
“Women, please celebrate your bodies like I do! Big, small,
fat, thin or any other way, we are glorious. No one has a right to shame us or
touch us or do anything without our consent. Sounds simple enough? Should.
Isn’t. Just isn’t. Doesn’t enter the knuckle heads of too many people who live
in our world, men & women included,” a part of her post read.
The singer recent got her own billboard at Times Square in
New York, which she called a ‘pop-culture milestone’.
