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'No One Wanted to Make This Film': India's Pinto Stars in Sex Slave's Tale Established 1961 20 T Thursday, May 24, 2018 L i f e s t y l e Music & Movies Singer R Kelly sued for sexual battery, false imprisonment woman who said she meet R&B singer R Kelly at a York in May 2017 and “initiated unwanted sexual contact” duct by Kelly, one of the most successful R&B singers of party in 2017 has filed a lawsuit against him, accus- with her there. the past 20 years. Music streaming service Spotify Aing him of sexual battery, false imprisonment and “During the course of their, approximately one-year removed Kelly’s music from promotional playlists this transmitting a sexual disease, the latest in a string of accu- relationship, defendant, R. Kelly, routinely engaged in month. That followed a #MuteKelly campaign, supported sations against the Grammy-award-winning pop star. In intimidation, mental, verbal and sexual abuse, during and by the Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment in the civil lawsuit filed in New York state court on Monday, after sexual contact,” the lawsuit said, adding that Kelly’s the workplace, that called on companies associated with the woman, Faith Rodgers, said she first met Kelly at a par- conduct “was designed to humiliate, embarrass, intimidate his music business to cut ties with the singer. ty following his performance in San Antonio, Texas, in and shame Plaintiff.” Rodgers said in a TV interview with In response to the Spotify decision, Kelly’s manage- March 2017, when she was 19. Kelly, 51, has denied multi- “CBS This Morning” on Tuesday that Kelly “has this type ment said in a statement: “Mr Kelly for 30 years has sung ple accusations of sexual misconduct over the past year. of, like, intimidation right off the bat. ... So I was just wait- songs about his love and passion for women. He is inno- His manager John Holder on Tuesday said in an email ing for it to be over.” cent of the false and hurtful accusations in the ongoing that Kelly had no comment “at this time” on Rodgers’ law- “I found myself like that multiple times,” Rodgers smear campaign against him, waged by enemies seeking a suit. RCA record company publicist Theola Borden did not added. In the lawsuit, she also accused Kelly of locking her payoff.”— Reuters respond to a request for comment. Rodgers, who is now up for extended periods of time as punishment and know- 20, says in the lawsuit that the singer famous for “I Believe ingly transmitting herpes to her. Her lawsuit follows several I Can Fly” made arrangements for her to visit him in New US media reports in the past year alleging sexual miscon- R Kelly Lauryn Hill ‘No one wanted to make this film’: India’s Pinto stars in sex slave’s tale new film starring “Slumdog Millionaire”‘s Freida More than 40 million people globally are trapped in Pinto and Demi Moore, about the real-life story of forced labour, forced marriages and sexual exploitation, Aa young Indian girl who gets trapped in the global the United Nations estimates, earning criminal networks sex trade, struggled to get funding because it was too illegal profits of $150 billion a year. At least 18 million controversial. The gritty movie “Love Sonia”, which also slaves are in India - trafficked into brothels, forced to features award-winning Anupam Kher, will premiere in work as manual labourers, or even born into servitude, June as it opens Europe’s largest South Asian cinema the Walk Free Foundation, an Australian-based rights gathering, the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film group, estimated in 2016. Festival. “It’s been a long, long journey. A very difficult For Mumbai-born actress, Freida Pinto, who has been one because the truth is no one wanted to make this involved in the film since its inception and is a vocal film,” debut director Tabrez Noorani told the Thomson humanitarian and advocate for women’s empowerment, Reuters Foundation. the issue of women and girls’ trafficking needs collective “No one wanted to make a film about trafficking in action. “Just because this film is in Hindi and it has prima- Hindi.” Noorani, a producer on Academy Award-winning rily Indian actors, it’s not a problem that just one country “Slumdog Millionaire”, “Life of Pi” and “Eat, Pray, Love”, suffers from. It’s really a global problem,” she said. “If we said he first encountered sex trafficking victims in Los can find our voices and our level of empathy can be Angeles in 2003. After some girls were found in a con- raised for people who don’t look like us and who don’t tainer shipped from China, he was inspired to work with speak our language, I feel that collective voice is what is charities tackling the issue, including participating in sev- ultimately going to result in change.” Both Pinto and eral raids on brothels. “The misconception is that it’s only Noorani said the key to tackling the global trafficking cri- women and girls. It’s not. It’s young boys, it’s old men, it’s sis was education, from teaching children in villages not older women ... There’s all types of trafficking. No one is to trust strangers, to working with authorities in cities to immune to it. Literally, it’s all races, all ages and both gen- help identify trafficked people on the streets. — Reuters ders,” he said. Freida Pinto and Demi Moore Hip hop singer Lauryn Hill to perform in UK for Ariana Grande Pulitzer-winning author album anniversary tour sends love to fans Philip Roth dies at merican singer and rapper Lauryn Hill will take to 85 the British stage later this year as she marks 20 on Manchester uthor Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derid- Roth taught comparative literature, mostly at the Ayears since the release of her award-winning ed for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions University of Pennsylvania. He retired from teaching in debut solo album. The former Fugees band member Athat haunted the modern Jewish-American experi- 1992 as a distinguished professor of literature at New released the hugely-successful “The Miseducation of anniversary ence, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, his agent said. York’s Hunter College. Roth had a long relationship with Lauryn Hill” in 1998, the first hip-hop album to win the Roth died in New York City at 10:30 pm local time of British actress Claire Bloom but their five-year marriage coveted album of the year prize at the Grammy awards. riana Grande shared a message of hope with fans congestive heart failure, his literary agent Andrew Wylie ended in divorce in 1995. A year later, she published a The 42-year-old is going on a world tour this summer to Tuesday as dignitaries, survivors, first responders said. Roth wrote more than 30 books, including the 1991 bruising memoir, “Leaving a Doll’s House,” in which she mark the anniversary, with the UK performances slated Aand the people of Manchester gathered to mark memoir “Patrimony,” which examined his complex rela- portrayed him as depressed, remote, self-centered and for the end of November and early December. the anniversary of the concert bombing that killed 22 peo- tionship with his father and won the National Book verbally abusive. The album “chronicled an intimate piece of my young ple. The pop star told survivors and the families of victims Critics Circle Award. existence”, Hill said in a statement about the tour. “I that she was “thinking of you all today and every day.” “I In his later years, Roth turned to the existential and loved and believed deeply in my community’s ability to love you with all of me and am sending you all of the light sexual crises of middle age, never abandoning his com- both love and heal itself provided it received the right and warmth I have to offer on this challenging day,” she mitment to exploring shame, embarrassment and other amount of support and encouragement,” she said. “Our wrote in a tweet that included a bee, the civic symbol of guilty secrets of the self, although usually with a heavy world today, both complex and changing, is in need of the Manchester. dose of humor. After more than 50 years as a writer, Roth balance between moral fortitude and cathartic expres- Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old Briton of Libyan descent, decided that 2010’s “Nemesis,” the story of a polio epi- sion. I hope the love and energy that permeated this blew himself up as fans were leaving Grande’s concert at demic in the Newark, New Jersey, neighborhood where work can continue to inspire change with love and opti- Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017. Twenty-two con- he grew up, would be his last novel. He then went back mism at the helm.” — Reuters certgoers were killed, and police say more than 800 and reread all his works “to see whether I’d wasted my people were left “with physical and deep psychological time,” he said in a 2014 interview published in the New injuries.” Across Manchester, a 19th century industrial York Times Book Review. powerhouse turned diverse and creative modern city, For his conclusion, he quoted Joe Lewis, the heavy- residents made defiant statements of unity in the face of weight boxing champion of the 1930s and ‘40s: “I did the extremist violence. best I could with what I had.” In 2017 he published “Why Some laid bouquets of flowers in St. Ann’s Square. Write?,” a collection of essays and non-fiction works Others left hand-written notes on Japanese maples that written between 1960 and 2013.
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