Former Miss India Universe and ‘Aashiq Banaya Aapne’ acclaim Tanushree Dutta, who started what can be considered India’s own one of a kind #MeToo battle in 2008, is presently back in the nation and has by and by blamed veteran performing artist Nana Patekar, choreographer Ganesh Acharya, ‘Horn Ok Pleassss’ maker Sami Siddiqui and chief Rakesh Sarang of harrassing her on the arrangements of the film.
Tanushree additionally asserted that Nana Patekar has had a background marked by striking ladies and that everybody in the business knows about the same. Subsequent to reviewing the nerve racking episode, the on-screen character included that the way that A-listers like Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar and Shahid Kapoor keep on working with these supposed “culprits” is something outside her ability to grasp.
On Thursday evening, Tanushree welcomed the media to speak encourage about the contention. While solely addressing DNA about her presentation film ‘Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets’ (2005), which likewise featured Anil Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Irrfan Khan, Emraan Hashmi among others; Tanushree shared a fairly disagreeable occurrence that occurred on the arrangements of the film.
According to the performing artist, the executive (Vivek Agnihotri) clearly requesting that her offer signals to Irrfan for a scene in which she was not in any case present. ‘Kapde utaar ke naacho’ (Remove your garments and move), is the thing that he advised her. Tanushree was excessively shaken, making it impossible to react however Irrfan, being the man of honor that he is, instantly halted the executive and revealed to him that he knows the proper behavior and he needn’t bother with somebody to give him ‘signals’. Suniel Shetty additionally criticized the chief.
Here’s what Tanushree said:
“This guy (Vivek Agnihotri) wanted me to give cues to an actor (Irrfan Khan). It was an actor’s close-up. It was not even my shot. I was not even going to be in the shot. It was the actor’s close-up and he had to just look at something and give expressions. This director, he told me jao jaake kapde utaar ke naacho, usko cues do.”
“…The male actor had to shoot back at the director saying, ‘I don’t need her to take off her coat and dance for me to give facial expressions. This was Irrfan Khan. I really appreciated that he actually spoke up like that because it was his close-up shot. I’m not in the frame. He had to look at me and give some expressions. Why do I have to dance in front of him for him to give expressions on his close-up shot. This director tells me ‘jao jaake kapde utaar ke naacho’. I was shocked!”
“…The actor was horrified. And, because he had done some work, he could say something. He just told the director, ‘What are you talking about? I can give my closeup. Mujhe acting aati hai’. Suneil Shetty also spoke up. He was also there, he heard it and he got offended by it. He was like, ‘Main aayun kya wahaan cues dene ke liye?’ Yeah ofcourse, there are good people in the industry. Both, Irrfan Khan and Suniel Shetty spoke up. Suneil scolded that guy.”
Though Tanushree didn’t name and shame Vivek Agnihotri, she did admit that, it was because of a few actors like Irrfan and Shetty that she didn’t give up on her acting career until ofcourse the 2008 incident took place.