Adding to the series of #MeToo allegations that have surfaced against popular Bollywood faces, singer Shweta Pandit accused composer Anu Malik of harassment. A day after accusations, a lawyer for the music composer said that the #MeToo movement, which is having its India moment, is being used for his client's "character assassination".
Pandit took to Twitter to accuse Malik of being a "pedophile and sexual predator", saying he misbehaved with her when she was a greenhorn in the Hindi music industry. He denied the allegation. In a statement to PTI, Malik's lawyer, Zulfiquar Memon said, "The allegations made against my client are emphatically denied as completely false and baseless. My client respects the #MeToo movement but to use this movement to start a character assassination mission is obnoxious."
Pandit is not the first one to name the music director, currently, a judge on reality singing TV show Indian Idol. Last week, singer Sona Mohapatra had also called Malik a "serial predator", a claim he had denied
(With PTI inputs)
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