West Bengal’s renowned playback singer Lagnajita Chakraborty alleged she was heckled at and physically harassed while performing a devotional song at a private function on Saturday.
Lagnajita Chakraborty told news agency ANI that a man charged towards her with the “intention to hit” her after she sang the devotional song ‘Jago Maa’ from the movie ‘Devi Chowdhurani’.
She identified the man as Mahboob Mallick, who, she said, wanted her to sing “something secular.”
Lagnajita Chakraborty explains what exactly happened
Speaking with news agency ANI, Chakraborty said she was performing at a school when the incident happened, “I had started my show at around 7 pm and it was going smoothly. At around 7: 45 pm, I was done singing seven songs and I was going to start with my eighth one on the list…”
She said the seventh song she sang was ‘Jago Maa’ from the movie ‘Devi Choudhurani’, which was released during this Pujo.
“While I was interacting with the audience after this song, I suddenly saw one man from the audience charging towards the stage…,” she said.
She claimed that man “came very close to my face. The school where I was performing was recording the whole concert, which is very normal, as every organiser does it. But I don’t have access to that video recording because it belongs to the school.”
“If somebody can access the video, if it comes out in public, then everybody can see that Mahboob Mallick charged towards the stage with the intention of hitting me,” she alleged.
“In plain words, he wanted to beat me up… While people rushed to save me and were pulling
