{"id":61059,"date":"2018-10-10T23:04:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61059"},"modified":"2018-10-10T23:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T03:04:10","slug":"playback-singer-chinmayi-sripaada-accuses-tamil-film-lyricist-vairamuthu-of-sexual-misconduct-while-in-lucerne-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=61059","title":{"rendered":"Playback Singer Chinmayi Sripaada Accuses Tamil Film Lyricist Vairamuthu of Sexual Misconduct While In Lucerne, Switzerland."},"content":{"rendered":"


\nBy<\/p>\n

S. Poorvaja <\/strong><\/p>\n

The #MeToo movement which has seen a number of survivors of sexual harassment open up about their experiences and naming perpetrators on Twitter, over the last few days, has trickled down to Kollywood with allegations surfacing against poet Vairamuthu.<\/p>\n

Singer Chinmayi Sripaada on Tuesday had tweeted about how she was asked by the organisers of an event that was held in Switzerland to \u2018co-operate\u2019 with Mr. Vairamuthu. While earlier she re-tweeted anonymous complaints about sexual misconduct in the industry without naming anyone, on Tuesday she went ahead and drew Mr. Vairamuthu’s name into the controversy, with her own account. A few members from the film fraternity spoke in support of her, and members of the community, but her tweets got a fair bit of trolling too.<\/p>\n

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While he did not react to the allegations directly, Mr. Vairamuthu tweeted on Wednesday, stating that it had become common to engage in an uncivilised acts like slander against well known-personalities, and the trend had spread so much, it was being considered civil now throughout the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the recent past, I have been constantly humiliated and this is yet another attempt at the same. Time will reveal the truth,\u201d he had tweeted.<\/p>\n

The poet had recently been embroiled in a controversy for a speech he had made on goddess Andal which had prompted several right-wing groups to demand an apology from him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movement\u2019s time has come and some of us have finally found the voice to speak up,\u201d said Ms. Chinmayi, speaking to The Hindu. In a telephonic conversation, she said that despite Mr. Vairamuthu skirting the allegations which have been made, \u201cthe fact remained that he was a serial predator.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt least four of my own singer colleagues have made allegations as well as three girls who have stayed in his hostel. They are not lying,\u201d she alleged.<\/p>\n

Ever since the singer opened up about her experience, she has also received a fair share of trolling from Twitter users. \u201cI am being questioned as to why I sang songs written by him. Of course I had to. Could I refuse to sing his songs?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n

The singer had said she would respond to a call from the National Commission for Women about writing to them of her complaint.<\/p>\n

Swiss experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

In her tweets accusing Mr. Vairamuthu, Ms. Chinmayi had alleged that she had been asked to visit Mr. Vairamuthu in his hotel in Lucerne by the event organiser.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked why. He told me to cooperate. I refused. We demanded to be sent back to India. He said: \u2018You won\u2019t have a career!\u2019,\u201d she tweeted. She further stated in her tweets that she and her mother had demanded an earlier flight to India and had then come back. The singer also alleged that 3 to 4 years back, Mr. Vairamuthu had asked her to sing the \u2018Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu\u2019 at a book release function which she refused to do.<\/p>\n

She alleged that when she refused to do so, he had allegedly threatened her and claimed that he would tell a politician that she had spoken ill of him on stage at an event.<\/p>\n

Mr. Vairamuthu was not available for comments on the specific allegations.<\/p>\n

‘False accusations’<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a video response shared on Wednesday, Suresh from Switzerland, who organised the \u2018Veezhamattom\u2019 album launch event which Ms. Chinmayi and Mr. Vairamuthu had been a part of came down on the singer\u2019s allegations and severely condemned it.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinmayi and her mother had been hosted in my house with my family. There is no way that an incident as she claims could have happened. She was treated very well during the course of her stay here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he is in Switzerland, it is very tough to even meet Mr. Vairamuthu. He comes here to appreciate nature and prefers to be alone. He has only met me once for dinner and it is tough for people to meet him as well,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He further reiterated that while it will be easy for someone of Mr. Vairamuthu\u2019s stature to tide over such false allegations given the conviction in his innocence, the claims made by the singer against an artist like him had made “Tamils all over the world extremely angry.”<\/p>\n


\nCourtesy:The Hindu<\/strong><\/p>\n

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