Singer Sona Mahapatra recives threat from ‘Sufi Foundation’,tweets to Mumbai police

Mumbai: Singer Sona Mahapatra on Monday in a series of tweet alleged the Madiyar Sufi Foundation of sending her a notice and threats to remove her latest video from all communication channels on the grounds that it did not comply with the Sufi format.

The singer has filed a written complaint against the foundation in the police, she did not file an FIR.

Mahapatra tweeted that the foundation termed her video, Tori Surat, obscene and objectionable. She alleged after giving the notice, they did not wait for her response and sent her threats through email. She claimed the foundation stated that her other video that came out five years ago, too, was inappropriate.

Dear @MumbaiPolice the Madariya Sufi foundation claims to work for Sufism,peace & universal brotherhood in their threatening notice to me. I ask you & #India ,what about the ‘sisterhood’?Why is it that in this day & age the women expected to cover up, not sing or dance in public

— SONA (@sonamohapatra) April 30, 2018

The Madariya foundation along with the agreement of the Nizamuddin Dargah have an issue with the description of my Tori Surat music video, “earthy incarnations of the feminine Divine” & with “a sleeveless dress and body exposing dancers”. Basically with everything woman & free.

— SONA (@sonamohapatra) April 30, 2018

The Sufi Madariya foundation has also called me a ‘regular offender’ & says that they find another five year old Video of me singing a Sufiana Kalam – Piya Se Naina on coke studio insulting Islam because I’m ‘dressed exposing my body’ & playing westernised music. @MumbaiPolice

— SONA (@sonamohapatra) April 30, 2018

“Mohapatra has submitted an application at Santacruz police station that the contention in the email received by her is incorrect. She said she has a certificate from the CBFC board for the content of her music video. The application is on record with the police,” said Paramjit Singh Dahiya, deputy commissioner of police, Zone 9.

Responding to the allegations by Sona Mahapatra, the foundation said, “We will reply to the Mumbai police when they approach us.”