TIL Desk Hollywood/ #MeToo may never find a place in Bollywood, but actress Tanushree Dutta has struck the first blow by declaring that no one supports the victims in the film industry. She stirred a hornet’s nest when she claimed that she was harassed on the sets of her 2008 film, Horn OK Pleassss, by her co-star Nana Patekar.
In a television interview, the actress alleged that Patekar got too close to her while performing a dance step, something he was not supposed to do. She also claimed he added an intimate step and tried to get her to do it. When she complained, she alleged she was initimidated by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena at Patekar’s behest.
MNS members, she alleged, besieged her car when she was leaving the studio along with her parents.’I have been a part of this film industry since the last 35 years,’ Patekar told the media in response, ‘and haven’t had anyone saying such things about me ever.’ Ganesh Acharya, the choreographer for Horn OK Pleasss, told a Web site that there was a ‘misunderstanding’, but ‘nothing of this sort happened.’
