Actor Tanushree Dutta, who alleged that Bollywood veteran Nana Patekar misbehaved with her on the sets of the film Horn ‘Ok’ Pleassss in the year 2008, has dismissed choreographer Ganesh Acharya’s defence of Nana.
In an interview to ANI, Dutta said that Patekar allegedly misbehaved with her on the sets and that her complaint in the connection went unaddressed.
“He misbehaved on the sets. He was being aggressive and was pushing me around. I complained about him, but it was not heard. They (film crew) were forcing me to do an intimate step. My contract stated that it was a solo dance sequence, and it was not supposed to be a duet. It was a way to manipulate me. This was the whole harassment situation going on,” Dutta said.
The Aashiq Banaya Aapne actor further alleged that she and her family were attacked after she refused to perform the intimate step.”When I tried to escape it, they called the media to do a mob lynching attack on us. My mother and father were inside the car. That was horrific. They made sure that we didn’t escape the studio as they locked the gates. Ganesh Acharya was the one who pressurised me to perform an intimate step. Everybody was involved including Amit Siddiqui and Rakesh Sarangi. All of them are good friends,” Dutta claimed.She asserted that before she and her family could reach out to the police to file a case, the film crew had already filed a counter FIR.”The cops came and got us out. We went to the police station, but before that, they went and filed a counter FIR. My father, my spot boy and my hairdresser, who were helping me, went through harassment over the next couple of years,” the 34-year-old actor alleged.Reacting to choreographer Ganesh Acharya’s statement on Patekar’s non-involvement in the issue, Dutta claimed, “He’s a bloody liar and a two-faced person. He’s going to say all that. And 10 years ago, he was one of those people who were equally complicit in the harassment. He won’t admit it.”Expressing grave concerns over the rise in cases of gangrape, Tanushree said that such “horrendous cases of violence and abuse against women and children” would turn the country into Iraq soon, if such crimes were not curbed.When asked why she made such allegations on a noted actor like Patekar, she said, ” Who said he is that? Did you go into his house and see what he was up to? Did you live with him.
