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Lewd songs:
Stop Honey Singh concert - online petition spreads
Monday December 31, 2012 05:51:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
An online petition seeking cancellation of popular rapper Honey
Singh's New Year's Eve performance at the Bristol Hotel in Gurgaon
Monday night, is doing the rounds online. The outrage is for his
use of crass lyrics around women.
The petition, "GM of The Bristol Hotel Gurgaon India: Stop Honey
Singh's performance", has been posted following the death of a
23-year-old victim of a brutal gang-rape in Delhi.
Honey Singh's songs like "Lak 28 kudi da", "Brown rang" and "Angrezi
beat" are peppy and popular among masses. But it is his 2006 song
"Ch**t", which has been pinpointed in the petition by Kalpana
Mishra on www.change.org.
The webpage reads: "The nation is outraged at the ease with which
rape happens, at the unnecessary death of a young woman whose
entire life lay before her. We know that these rapes occur because
in the India of today rape is acceptable to many men."
When IANS contacted Bristol Hotel, a source confirmed the concert
in on.
"The Honey Singh performance is on. It starts at 8 p.m.," said the
source.
Even filmmaker Kunal Kohli is against Honey Singh's gig.
"Honey Singh should not be allowed to perform in India. To write
lyrics like that is disgusting, to be allowed to perform them, a
shame. Come on Gurgaon, show the world, boycott Honey Singh, two
days after Nirbhaya/Damini dies, you can't let him sing such lewd
songs," Kohli posted on Twitter.
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