The Me Too movement has gathered steam in India over the last few days with scores of women coming out to share their gut-wrenching ordeals. It gained momentum in the country after actor Tanushree Dutta accused Nata Patekar of harassing her.
Since then, incidents of harassment and sexual misconduct have come out in the open, with allegations being leveled against many personalities in the media and entertainment industry, including Subhash Ghai, Sajid Khan, Vikas Bahl, Alok Nath, Kailash Kher, Anu Malik, Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Rajat Kapoor.
But what's scary is the fact that this is just the tip of the ice-berg as Bollywood is yet to out its big players. A blind item in Arré titled, 'Who’s that Veteran Who Harasses Women in Front of His Wife? Bollywood, Call Out Your Big Bad Men' has opened a can of worms.
It talks about an A-lister Bollywood actor who forcibly kisses young actresses on pretext of rehearsing scenes with them.
Read it for yourself -
"Everyone knows that four months ago, when a young actress reached the sets of her upcoming big-budget film she was accosted by the A-lister hero working opposite her. In his bid to make her feel “comfortable” on her first big film, he placed himself in her vanity van. The minute she entered, he proceeded to make her even more “welcome” by taking off his shirt and forcing a kiss on her. When she confronted him and threatened to complain to the film’s director, the A-lister – a veteran in sexual harassment – simply laughed and left."
"Everyone knows that the actress complained to the film’s well-connected director, who promised to take care of it. But instead the director complained to the hero about how she spoke of his “friendliness”. Everyone knows and doesn’t know that from then onward, the actress had to single-handedly fend herself from the actor’s physical advances – public groping, grabbing her breasts in his vanity van on the pretext of rehearsing a scene, and repeated attempts to kiss her – almost every other day. Her crying face became a crude inside joke on the film’s sets and when she halted the shoot midway, reports about her being “unprofessional” started doing the rounds in almost every tabloid. Everyone knows as the A-lister took it upon himself to narrate his version of the story at almost every Bollywood party he attended."
The blind item also mentions about a yesteryear actor 'who’d drunkenly insist that his wife watch him force himself on screaming female leads'. And, also about a senior actor whose 'impossibly long career is replete with him preying on young actresses and getting them to sleep with him.'
Who are these actors? Can you guess?
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