Comedian and YouTuber Utsav Chakraborty, who was once associated with AIB has been blamed for sending explicit messages to ladies, including minors, via social media. It began as a Twitter thread about a gathering of Indian men’s vulgar conduct on-board a cruise, which Chakraborty denounced. A Twitter client, at that point, got on to the thread to discuss the most exceedingly awful mystery in the Indian comedy circuit – the sexual maltreatment faced by ladies because of the male comics.
She began a thread censuring Utsav Chakraborty’s sexual harassment with women, including minor young ladies. He has been blamed for requesting that minors to send ‘nudes’.
Meanwhile, stories shared by other ladies on Twitter, point by point episodes where Chakraborty had professedly sent them unsolicited photos of explicit nature, requested nudes, and generally carried on in profoundly inappropriate ways. Some of the women have also said that they were minors at the time of being reached by Chakraborty.
As the affirmations picked up footing on Twitter, AIB issued an announcement saying they were pulling down all the videos featuring Chakraborty, and furthermore communicated their regret over giving a protected workplace to him. The group said it has been following the allegations against Utsav Chakraborty on social media and these describe a pattern of behaviour that is unacceptable.
I want everyone to know @Wootsaw is a piece of shit. He sent me a dick pic, was creepy, then cried saying I’ll ruin his career if I tell others. I told two of the most influential men in comedy in India. Nothing happened. Let me tell you what else he has done with others.
— Mahima Kukreja 🌱🌈✊🏽 (@AGirlOfHerWords) 4 October 2018
Prominent stand-up comedians such as Varun Grover, Aditi Mittal and Kaneez Surka have called out on Utsav Chakraborty.
Shameful, creepy, ugly behavior by a fellow comic (Utsav/@Wootsaw). More stories coming out, all because @AGirlOfHerWords decided to speak out. Indian Comedy, like every other industry, needs a #TimesUp. https://t.co/WpVGdQlvkZ
— वरुण (@varungrover) 4 October 2018
What the actual fuck @Wootsaw? What makes people think you will get away with this behaviour? But more importantly why do you people continue to behave this way? https://t.co/9KmF1nWvMP
— Kaneez Surka (@kaneezsurka) 4 October 2018
Utsav has apologised for his behaviour in a series of tweets and said he has no excuse for it.
Statement 1/n pic.twitter.com/sIouz4UsaR
— Utsav (@Wootsaw) 4 October 2018
To be honest, from all accounts, I’ve been a piece of shit. And I will try to do everything I can work past that. There was no excuse. I know inconsiderate and entitled. Even in this narrative, when this whole thing started, I kept looking at myself as the victim.
— Utsav (@Wootsaw) 4 October 2018
I tried to talk to Mahima (@agirlofherwords) & sort it out way back in 2016. She would have none of it and why would she? She has never known me in real life, and even if she did – how is that for a respite? Even if my intention wasn’t to make her feel shitty the truth is, I did.
— Utsav (@Wootsaw) 4 October 2018
To me, getting nudes from a person was an instant rush. I was not in pain for that brief moment. Someone trusted me with that information. I would feel honoured and not ugly. But this caught me into a weird spiral. Where I would ask anyone who was nice to me in the slightest.
— Utsav (@Wootsaw) 4 October 2018
In my head it was just plain sexting. Because I had made up this egalitarian society where women constantly don’t get harassed every waking moment of the day. And I would look at myself and say but I’m so woke. I’m not like *those* guys.
— Utsav (@Wootsaw) 4 October 2018
How can I be a misogynist when I call it out constantly? Even if I was entitled I would think that life has been unfair to me, it gave me a disease without a cure. And I wouldn’t give it a second thought. I would go from one painkiller haze to another and keep messaging.
— Utsav (@Wootsaw) 4 October 2018
It’s a little too late now but I am sorry. I really am. The past 24 hours were a crucible. I faced a very scary personal truth. I can’t think of myself as a victim anymore. Please tell me what to do now. How to make things right? I don’t want anyone to be hurt anymore.
— Utsav (@Wootsaw) 5 October 2018
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