Mika had kissed me once before...
MIDDAY, June 12, 2006
By: Vickey Lalwani
Rakhi Sawant has accused Daler Mahendi’s brother Mika of sexual assault at his birthday bash on Sunday. There’s more to this jhagda than meets the eye. Given Rakhi’s history, it could all be a publicity stunt.
The big question is, is Mika a victim or is he party to the plan? If Mika has kissed her against her will before and they remained friends, what’s different this time? Rakhi declares she will forgive him if he publicly apologises.
So don’t be surprised if they turn friends a week, fornight or a month from now. Meanwhile this is what they have to say...
She says
The Kiss
According to Rakhi, “Mika has kissed me forcibly, once before this. I was dancing on an awards nite in Punjab, and he came on stage and kissed me. At the time, I forgave him because he was a friend.
Coming to what happened at Mika’s birthday party, I introducing the director of my music video, Deepti Nagia, to him, but he started smooching me. He smooched me twice. Usne mera gala pakda aur bahut zor se kiss kiya. He bit my lower lip and broke my ear-ring. I don’t know why he did this to me again.”
What happened after
“I never left the party. I did go down for a while, but that was simply because I was crying after the incident and I got a shirt for myself because I wanted to go to the cops; I was wearing an outfit that I couldn’t have gone to the police station in. It was a very sexy backless dress.
This time, I couldn’t forgive him. What he did is unpardonable. I came back to the party and asked him to apologise in front of everyone. Instead, his bodyguards began beating up my rakhi brother Sheizwood. He himself ordered the bodyguards to do this.
The unpleasant incident did not happen after 3 am, but soon after the cake was cut. I have filed an FIR at the Oshiwara police station for sexual assault. I will withdraw my complaint only if he renders a public apology. Private maafi nahin chalegi.”
He says
The Kiss
Mika says, “I did not kiss Rakhi Sawant in Punjab. Such things cannot be done in Punjab, where I not even release my video Something Something on the local channels there because it is bold. It was Rakhi who’d beckoned me to join her. I did and we simply danced.
As for what happened yesterday at Someplace Else, I am simply shocked. I am being blamed simply because I was the host. I think Rakhi has engineered a publicity stunt. I never kissed her on the lips. I kissed her but only on the cheek. I think Sheizwood had a problem when he noticed this. This happened around midnight.”
What happened after
“After some time, Rakhi left the place. Little later, she changed her dress and came back with Sheizwood and few other guys. After some time, I noticed that Sheizwood was being beaten up by a bunch of people. The fight happened much later, somewhere around 3 am.
Mind you, the guys who were beating up Sheizwood were not my bodyguards. In fact, I tried to save the situation by stopping the fight. Suddenly, I heard Rakhi screaming that I had smooched her on the lips.”
WEBSOURCE: http://ww3.mid-day.com/hitlist/2006/june/139209.htm
posted by SG @ 12:44 PM
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Monday, June 12, 2006
Rakhi Sawant, Mika and 'party kissing'
Rakhi Sawant has filed a police complaint against Mika, the pop singer, for allegedly forcibly kissing her. In response, Daler Mehndi, young Mika's older brother, has said, "This party kissing is not Indian culture."
While surfing channels mindlessly shortly after recording my audio piece for the day for Cricinfo, I came across footage of the incident on Channel 7. Rakhi and Mika were laughing around together in front of his birthday cake, and the cameraman had clearly been instructed to focus on her, well, curves. (I hate that word, I really do!) So you had a close-up of bare back with camera zooming out to reveal Rakhi in a backless dress, then close-up of her bosom from the side, then camera moving up and down like a caress, and so on. It was pornography with clothes on.
There was plenty of banter, and Rakhi gave Mika a long peck on the cheek, which clearly delighted Mika. After cutting the cake, he grabbed her, and as all his friends looked on in delight, kissed her on the lips. It was clear, when he grabbed her, that she didn't want to be kissed (or grabbed, for that matter).
In an altercation after this, the gentleman accompanying her, a rather hefty fellow, was also allegedly beaten up.
I'm sure a lot of people will see the footage and conclude from Rakhi's flirtatious behaviour that Mika may have been justified in taking the liberties he did. That's a pity, because that kind of thinking is used to justify matters much worse than an enforced kiss. More power to Rakhi for complaining about it, though I'm not sure what penalties the Indian penal code proscribes for this, and how much time that will take to come through. Rakhi may well even choose to drop the case, as I'm sure the two of them have many mutual friends. But Mika has, hopefully, learnt a lesson from this. (Not the one about 'party kissing' and Indian culture.)
Ah, and you ask me what I think of 'party kissing' in general? Well, as long as there is consent on both sides, I don't really care what the hell people do at parties. Speaking for myself, I find mua-mua cheek-brushy-brushy air-kissing rather awkward, and parties aren't quite my natural environment. I like footage, though.
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