#MeToo: Chinmayi shames Singer Karthik next
Singer Chinmayi, who has been levelling allegations of sexual harassment against seven-time National Award winner Vairamuthu in the wake of the #MeToo movement, today chose to identify her fellow singer Karthik as a harasser.
It may be recalled that Chinmayi, a feminist, has been in the forefront of the #MeToo movement in India. The movement is aimed at naming and shaming men, who are alleged to have sexually harrassed women. As part of the movement, Chinmayi has been retweeting women’s allegations of sexual abuse.
On Friday, the singer backed another alleged victim, who said she wished to be anonymous but wanted Karthik to be called out as a sexual predator.
The victim is believed to have first sent a message to journalist Sandhya Menon. The message read, “Hi Sandhya, I want to talk about singer Karthik (of Girlfriend fame), I wish to remain anonymous.
“A few years ago, we were at a public event and he kept talking about my body, he wanted to touch me, feel me and said he masturbated thinking of me. He made me extremely uncomfortable and I felt disgusted. Everytime, I have met him I cringed to be near him. I have heard singers complain about him. He’s a very popular and influential singer in the industry, I want to remain anonymous. This man is a disgusting sicko who tries to exploit female singers on tours. I wish to remain anonymous.”
Sandhya Menon had tweeted this message to her followers.
Chinmayi has now put out a message on Twitter that seems to be in support of this woman. The message that Chinmayi posted reads,”The #Metoo campaign is truly an ugly truth vent and I would be doing grave injustice in not calling out singer Karthik. What I actually mean is ‘We’ as I personally know of several others so this is #Ustoo. He has always misused his popularity and sickeningly pursued multiple women(even same day!). This is not restricted to the singer fraternity alone. He does it ‘as a matter of fact’ and has no regret in doing so. Sexting, dirty pictures, videos, groping… what not. I have experienced this myself. Just cos he is popular he had veiled it well. Thus far. Anonymity actually is no big deal in this case as there are so many girls who would gladly say ‘#Metoo’.”
Interestingly, Chinmayi and Karthik have sung several songs together.
