Celebrities like Farhan Akhtar, Priyanka Chopra, and Swara Bhaskar have come out in help of the continued #MeToo Movement in India. The most recent one to affix them is Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan.
On Tuesday, Salim took to Twitter to extend his help for the people coming out and narrating their horrific tales in public. He wrote, “The one defence they’ve is “Why so late?” It is larger late than certainly not. You don’t need to attend for the consequence, you may have already acquired good public help. Aadmi pahad se gir kar khadda ho sakta hai…apni nazron se girkar nahin.”Simply recently, inside the wake of the #MeToo movement, Somy Ali who dated Salman Khan for over eight years, claimed that she was assaulted by a house-help when she was merely 5 years outdated. She joined Bollywood as a teen, nonetheless later moved to Florida, to start an NGO generally known as No Additional Tears (NMT) that helps girls who’ve been se**xually abused.
In an interview, Somy revealed that she grew up in an surroundings the place girls confronted house violence and bodily abuse. Pinkvilla quoted her saying: “I grew up amidst an surroundings of house violence in Pakistan and loads of of my mom’s associates had been victims of bodily abuse as properly. As soon as I’d ask my mom regarding the bruises on their our our bodies, I was always knowledgeable that X aunty or Y aunty fell down the steps. This was the same old, widespread euphemism for bodily abuse.”
The #MeToo and #TimesUp actions have stirred the Bollywood film fraternity and varied girls have come forward alleging customary names from enterprise for se**xual misconduct.