In a shocking expose by Cobrapost, more than three dozen celebrities were caught on camera agreeing to take cash in return for promoting political parties on their social media handles. The celebrities included actors, musicians, comedians, and other artists. The sting operation was titled ‘Operation Karaoke’ and exposed big names of the industry getting indulged in unethical practices.
Many celebrities were approached with hidden cameras and the ones who agreed to be a part of this foul practice were as follows -Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Kailash Kher, Mika Singh, Baba Sehgal.
Kailash Kher tells us that his agency will handle the Commercial aspects of the Deal, with a hidden agenda: “Haan, Hidden mein bhi wo batayenge commercial hum Nahi batayenge. Hum bas Haan ya Na kar sakte hain, ki ye kaam hum kar payenge ya Nahi kar payenge” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/RtiG1cXnKL
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
#OperationKaraoke: Oberoi seeks required Data to make his messages look Factually Credible, something not paid for. “Aap data wagaireh bhi denge na…Data ke hissab se hum likh sakte hain … aisa lagna Nahi chahiye ki humein Bola gaya hai likhne ke liye” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/2SgD5TDMoN
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
#OperationKaraoke: Mahima Chaudhry while agreeing seeks to know the Budget “Jhoot mooth ke Tweet kitna milega … kya Budget lekar aaye ho?” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/rwls1HfmKW
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
Actors like Vivek Oberoi, Jackie Shroff, Shakti Kapoor, Sonu Sood, Amisha Patel, Mahima Chaudhry, Puneet Issar, Surendra Pal, Shreyas Talpade, Pankaj Dheer, Nikitin Dheer, Tisca Chopra, Rohit Roy, Deepshikha Nagpal, Akhilendra Mishra, Rahul Bhat, Salim Zaidi, Rakhi Sawant, Aman Verma, Hiten Tejwani, his wife Gauri Pradhan, Evelyn Sharma, Minissha Lamba, Koena Mitra, Poonam Pandey and Sunny Leone also agreed to promote in exchange of cash.
#OperationKaraoke: Tejwani @tentej makes a revelation: “Correct, Public ko Nahi pata hoga. hota hee aisa hai saara matlab ye bhi for example ye political party ka kind of promotion hai toh hum log product bhi uss tareh se promote karte hain’ #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/A0EJhn5Q3a
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
Minissha Lamba is disappointed when told a part of her fee will be paid in white. “No I thought it was a mainly a cash deal toh fir jo contract banega what is going to be scope of” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/SIJPlNMHT1
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
Comedians like Raju Srivastava, Sunil Pal, Rajpal Yadav, Upasana Singh, Krushna Abhishek, and Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar also got caught on camera. Choreographers Ganesh Acharya and Sambhavana Seth also made the list.
There were other celebrities who refused to accept the offer are Vidya Balan, Arshad Warsi, Raza Murad, and Saumya Tandon.
#OperationKaraoke: Abhishek lays out a host of plans, including his shows, to promote the BJP. He says, “Aur agar Professionally kar raha hoon main toh fir main usko proper plan bhi karoonga” #BikaooBollywood pic.twitter.com/5mdbIr2B87
— Cobrapost (@cobrapost) February 19, 2019
The price ranged from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 50 lakh per post. They even agreed to accept the money in cash, essentially meaning black money. This is one of the biggest expose ahead of elections.
(Newsmobile independently cannot verify the veracity of all the claims)
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