F.I.R. Against Honey Singh For "vulgar songs"

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Nipun

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Gurgaon hotel cancels rapper Honey Singh's concert, FIR in Lucknow over offensive lyrics - The Times of India

LUCKNOW: An FIR was lodged against rapper Honey Singh, who has been a chart-topper this year, by an IPS officer at Lucknow's Gomtinagar police station on Monday.

A hotel in Gurgaon has also cancelled the rapper's performance tonight after online outrage over his offensive lyrics.

IPS officer Amitabh Thakur lodged the FIR against Honey Singh for his `extremely vulgar and indecent songs'. Thakur said in the FIR that the songs were extremely vulgar, indecent and acted as a catalyst for crime against women. He said that the rapper's misogynistic and deeply-troubling lyrics described how woman could be sexually assaulted. "This cannot be accepted at all, particularly when the country is mourning the death of Delhi gang-rape victim and is outraged over increasing crime against women," the complaint says.

Through the day, an online petition, addressed to the management of Bristol Hotel, by a group of social activists demanded the cancellation of Honey Singh's New Year performance at the Gurgaon hotel. The petition campaigned for the singer to be dropped on account of songs in the early phase of his career, which promote violence against women.

The online petition was filed by one Kalpana Misra via change.org who appealed for a ban on the Punjabi rapper's 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.

The rapper was unavailable for comment.

Outrage against the rapper and his derogatory songs have been pouring on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter for the past few days.

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.

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."

The FIR in Lucknow has been registered under the Sections 292, 293 and 294 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). These IPC sections deal with display of obscene material, circulation of obscene material among people through different mediums, indulging in obscene act in a public place and singing, reciting or uttering obscene song or words in a public place to the annoyance of others. Maximum punishment under these sections is three years.

In his complaint, Thakur had also asked for slapping Section 509 of the IPC on Singh but police refused to do so. Section 509 covers uttering any word, making a gesture or indulging in any act which amounts to insulting the modesty of a woman.

28-year-old Honey 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'. 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 "C**t", which has been pinpointed in the petition by Kalpana Mishra. He had two songs on YouTube's list of top 10 most-popular videos of 2012 for India.

My question: Why did they take 6 years to wake up? And:
reciting or uttering obscene song or words in a public place to the annoyance of others.
He never sang these songs in public. People who don't want to hear them shall never download/buy/listen to them on internet. I never did.
 

theserpent

Firecracker to the moon
To long didn't read.... But I read in Facebook via a post by some page..that the concert is still there
 

sumonpathak

knocking on heavens door
sooo....someone care to enlighten us as to what exactly is in the lyrics? or its just dat one more misuse of judicial system?
you want to ban something for pornography? try reading the original version of the two classics..
here's an excerpt:
and you have been warned...its explicit..
[Ravana:] 'Who are you, golden woman dressed in garments of yellow silk, wearing a lovely lotus garland, and like a lotus pond yourself? Are you the goddess Modesty or Fame? Are you Sri or lovely Laksmi or perhaps an apsaras, lovely lady? Could you be Prosperity, shapely woman, or easygoing Pleasure? … Your hips are full and broad, your thighs smooth as an elephant's trunk. And these, your delightful breasts, how round they are, so firm and gently heaving; how full and lovely, smooth as two palm fruits, with their nipples standing stiff and the rarest gems to adorn them.' " -- Ramayana 3:44:15-19. [Pollock, Sheldon I. The Ramayana of Valmiki: an Epic of Ancient India. Aranyakanda (vol. 3). Pub.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-06660-4. p.180].
"[Sita:] 'Those marks that are pronounced infallible by those versed in such knowledge, on Rama being slain, are nullified in me. My hairs are fine, equal, and blue; my eye-brows touch each other; my hips are devoid of down and round; and my teeth are close. My temples, and eyes, hands, feet, ankles, and thighs are equal. And my fingers are furnished with round nails, and are plump and even in the middle. And my breasts are close and firm and developed, and have their nipples sunk. And my navel is depressed, with high sides. And my chest is swelling.' " -- Ramayana 6:48. [Dutt, Manmatha Nath. The Ramayana: translated into English prose from the original Sanskrit of Valmiki. Calcutta: Deva Press, 1889-94. Vol. III. pp.1240-1241].

source:*www.oocities.org/india505/sita.htm

KIDS..dont click plz...
 
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debarshi

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Source is down, and its nothing the KIDS cant see, the kids who browse this forum are pretty well aware of what it going on.............. :)

Where are these people when actual pornography is spreading like a wildfire???
 

sumonpathak

knocking on heavens door
Re: F.I.R. Against Honey Singh For "vulgar songs"

fixed..
warning as i know some one will be butt hurt and report me...

do dont have the power to go against an industry...so they just stay put...

also what can i say if the original scriptures are like this :\
 

sumonpathak

knocking on heavens door
some guy who manages construct a stream of words..mix it with some oddball sounds..and produce a vidoe out of it....with necessary associative stuff...
:p
 

Desmond

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Though not a fan of his songs, I do not think that they are responsible for any "crime against women". He is an artist and he makes songs, that is his job. It is the listeners who are not mature enough to not take them seriously. Such people do not deserve to listen to his songs.

Also, why use a very rare, obscure 2006 song as evidence? A song that has no public broadcast and is mainly circulated privately through bluetooth cell phones is now uncovered and getting air time thanks to this fiasco. However, the last time I checked, he has given up his vulgar image since he went mainstream so there is no reason for banning his shows as long as he does not bring up anything vulgar in public.

I think this is the same kind of impulsiveness as Justice Katju faced when he stated that 90% Indians are idiots.
 

Faun

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I listened to few songs for the first and last time. He is a terrible one, not in the league of artists.
 

thetechfreak

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Oh well for some reasons I never liked his songs.

The last time I heard of him was in a joke sent via SMS :p

But I do know there‘s lot of “vulgar“ things in his songs.
 
This is ridiculous lol. His songs are those to be taken on good humour. Used to be extremely popular in 1st year of college when any sentence with some random swears in it used to sound funny. For those who have no idea who/what Honey Singh is, go to youtube and search "Ch**t Vol 1". Replace ** with o's if you're not smart enough to figure that out. Oh and the song is NSFW and you're better off not letting your parents/kids listen-in either ;)
 

NoasArcAngel

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Re: F.I.R. Against Honey Singh For "vulgar songs"

his older songs with vulgar words are okay to listen to if you are with school friends, but i think filing an FIR for vulgar words / exploiting sexuality of women is wrong. Tomorrow if anyone abuses you will file an FIR, hell someone will countersue the person who filed the FIR for obstruction of freedom of speech.

some years ago someone filed a suit against eminem for lyrics which are sexually abusive. sad what is happening in this country. On one side we expect to be more mature .. have an open mind, allow same sex marriages and live in relationships but when we try to voice our opinion and that too in good sense on how we feel about sexuality you file an FIR. Lets just say first ban all porn in india and then talk about this, because the same person who filed the FIR obviously has not watched porn. oh and about 40% govt computers have porn on them....
 

tkin

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So these songs incite rape, not that I like these songs, but rapes have nothing to do with how we demoralize women in other medias, like TV(eg: the new Axe ad which is running, or axe soap ad), newspapers etc etc.
 
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Nipun

Nipun

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sooo....someone care to enlighten us as to what exactly is in the lyrics? or its just dat one more misuse of judicial system?
The song in question, c*** from 2006 is vulgar, but no other song is. But FIR says "reciting or uttering obscene song or words in a public place to the annoyance of others." He never sang these songs in public, and anyone who heard this is with his own will on youtube. Just a misuse.

^^ great definition of honey singh.
but now he has gone non-abusive.
no vulgar lingi now.
see previous songs.


Yes, his recent songs have little or no vulgar words.


Though not a fan of his songs, I do not think that they are responsible for any "crime against women". He is an artist and he makes songs, that is his job. It is the listeners who are not mature enough to not take them seriously. Such people do not deserve to listen to his songs.

Also, why use a very rare, obscure 2006 song as evidence? A song that has no public broadcast and is mainly circulated privately through bluetooth cell phones is now uncovered and getting air time thanks to this fiasco. However, the last time I checked, he has given up his vulgar image since he went mainstream so there is no reason for banning his shows as long as he does not bring up anything vulgar in public.

I think this is the same kind of impulsiveness as Justice Katju faced when he stated that 90% Indians are idiots.
Agreed.

I listened to few songs for the first and last time. He is a terrible one, not in the league of artists.
Which were they? :p :p

But I do know there‘s lot of “vulgar“ things in his songs.
Seriously? :|

So these songs incite rape, not that I like these songs, but rapes have nothing to do with how we demoralize women in other medias, like TV(eg: the new Axe ad which is running, or axe soap ad), newspapers etc etc.

If these incite rape, then following should be banned too:
"Assi jitthe javange, gadi modange. Saare ke saare signal todange" for making someone break rules.
Amplifier- "Police de samne me nai rukda..." for making break laws.
Desi boys' rap- "Jaha bhi dekhi kudi kawari, usko ghar tak chor ke ana, aadhi raat ko lot ke ana" for provoking rape again.
All item numbers for same.
News-channels for stupidity.
Movies like Dabanng because "it may cause a police-wala to kill an innocent".

:-/
 
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