New Delhi: Rapper Honey Singh, who was forced to cancel his scheduled New Year's Eve show following protests in the backdrop of gangrape incident, today sought to wash his hands off the controversy triggered by offensive lyrics in some of his songs.
Singh, 28, who has sung for several Bollywood movies, said he had not authored the lyrics that are being attributed to him.
The lyrics have been termed offensive towards women by activists, who have started an online campaign against Singh.
An FIR has also been lodged against the rapper in Lucknow.
When contacted Mr Singh's manager Anup Kumar claimed that the Gurgaon show was cancelled not because of the protests but in solidarity with the Delhi gangrape victim.
"We did not cancel the show because of this petition and FIR. We cancelled it in the wake of Delhi gang-rape issue.
This is not the first concert we are cancelling in Delhi after that horrific incident. We had also cancelled our much publicised December 25 event," Kumar told PTI.
Bristol Hotel, however, disputed Singh's version, saying it was the management and not Singh, who decided to cancel the performance.
MR Singh has also issued a public notice claiming that he is not the author of those lyrics.
"Honey Singh wishes to clarify through this notice that he has no connection whatsoever with the said songs. My client has already written to various digital platforms to immediately take down the video/songs and is also considering appropriate legal action for defamation, loss of reputation and violation of privacy," a notice by lawyer Pragyan Pradip, Mr Sharma, on behalf of MR Singh, read.
The FIR against Mr Singh was lodged by Gomti Nagar police on the complaint of IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, police sources said in Lucknow. The FIR was registered under sections 292, 293 and 294 of the IPC that are related to obscenity offences.
An online petition is also doing the rounds against Mr Singh by Kalpana Misra via change.org who appealed for a ban on his performance.
"These pornographic lyrics are unacceptable and it is because of women-hating sentiments like these that men think that it's fine to do what they did on that bus, that December night in Delhi.
"Let's put a stop to these subversive lyrics that infiltrate the minds of people who don't know better and who then justify to themselves the rightness of a crime that harms another human being, sometimes so severely that they lose their lives," the petition stated.
Outrage against the rapper and his derogatory songs have been pouring on social networking sites like Facebook and
Twitter for the past few days.
Mr Singh raps mostly in a mix of English and Punjabi and has lent his voice in recent Bollywood films like 'Khiladi 786', 'Cocktail' and 'Luv Shuv Te Chicken Khurana'.
Singh, 28, who has sung for several Bollywood movies, said he had not authored the lyrics that are being attributed to him.
The lyrics have been termed offensive towards women by activists, who have started an online campaign against Singh.
When contacted Mr Singh's manager Anup Kumar claimed that the Gurgaon show was cancelled not because of the protests but in solidarity with the Delhi gangrape victim.
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This is not the first concert we are cancelling in Delhi after that horrific incident. We had also cancelled our much publicised December 25 event," Kumar told PTI.
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MR Singh has also issued a public notice claiming that he is not the author of those lyrics.
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The FIR against Mr Singh was lodged by Gomti Nagar police on the complaint of IPS officer Amitabh Thakur, police sources said in Lucknow. The FIR was registered under sections 292, 293 and 294 of the IPC that are related to obscenity offences.
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"These pornographic lyrics are unacceptable and it is because of women-hating sentiments like these that men think that it's fine to do what they did on that bus, that December night in Delhi.
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Outrage against the rapper and his derogatory songs have been pouring on social networking sites like Facebook and
Twitter for the past few days.
Mr Singh raps mostly in a mix of English and Punjabi and has lent his voice in recent Bollywood films like 'Khiladi 786', 'Cocktail' and 'Luv Shuv Te Chicken Khurana'.
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