Extra names from Bollywood make headlines as India’s MeToo motion takes off; director Sajid Khan – Farah Khan’s brother, and Khalnayak director Subhash Ghai have been accused of se**xual harassment and rape, respectively.
Race three actor Saloni Chopra has alleged in a weblog put up that Sajid Khan se**xually harassed her whereas she labored as his assistant in 2011.
She wrote: “He was well-known for his interview questions. He asks questions like ‘do you masturbate?’ and ‘what number of occasions every week?’… he additionally requested me if I’d ever been se**xually abused, I mentioned sure. Then he requested bizarre questions like if I’d ever get a breast job, and talked about how intercourse is known as a psychological connection.”
“…by the top of the interview I used to be in tears, and I wasn’t totally certain why. I didn’t know if it was as a result of I felt considerably uncomfortable round him, or as a result of I’d opened up an excessive amount of.”
The actor additionally mentioned that he would name her at odd hours justifying it by saying ” the business by no means sleeps and work occurs in any respect hours… besides he wasn’t speaking about work” and make inappr**opriate discuss on the cellphone and in individual.
Ungli actor Rachel White, responded to Chopra along with her personal story of harassment by the hands of the director, saying, “Consider you together with your story. And I informed you mine in order that extra individuals can imagine you and cease making girls appear like consideration seekers.”
Indian journalist Karishma Upadhyay detailed two incidents the place she was harassed by Sajid; as soon as when she went to interview him within the early 2000s and one other time when she was requested to work with him on MTV.
Sajid Khan, who was directing Housefull four has stepped down because the allegations got here out and tweeted, “I have to take ethical duty of stepping down from my directorial put up.”
His sister Farah Khan has responded to the allegations by saying, “If my brother has behaved on this method then has loads to atone for.”
Akshay Kumar, who is part of the Housefull four solid, posted on Twitter. “I’ve requested the producers of Housefull four to cancel the shoot till additional investigation.. I can’t work with any confirmed offenders and all this who’ve been subjugated to harassment must be heard and given the justice they deserve.”
His spouse Twinkle Khanna additionally urged the Housefull four solid to take a stance towards this.
Within the different case, Taal director Subhash Ghai was accused of rape by a lady who says he spiked her drink and se**xually assaulted her. Her story was posted by Twitter consumer Mahima Kukreja who has additionally outed AIB’s former member Utsav Chakraborty for se**xual harassment.
The filmmaker has denied the allegations, referred to as them “a style to malign anybody”.
“As I hear some allegation made towards me within the air from part of media. It’s very unhappy that it’s turning into a style to malign anybody recognized, bringing some tales from previous with none fact or half-truth, if in any respect. I deny strictly and firmly all false allegations like these. I’ll go for defamation definitely.”