Katras: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Baghmar Dhullu Mahto is accused of sexual harassment by his own party worker. The victim has tried to immolate herself outside police station blaming the police for not taking any action against the perpetrator. The victim was angered with[Read More…]
Mumbai: With an FIR for rape lodged against actor Alok Nath, writer-director Vinta Nanda says she is “willing to forgive” but “show some remorse, repentance”, so she knows he will never violate another woman again. Vinta is still willing to forgive Alok if he apologises. “I was never in this[Read More…]
Mumbai police have registered an FIR against actor Alok Nath. The FIR has been booked under Section 376 of IPC (rape). On October 8, writer Vinta Nanda, in a Facebook post had shared her ordeal of being sexually violated by Alok Nath of the 90s hit TV show Tara. She[Read More…]
Actress Preity Zinta has accused Bollywood Hungama of ‘editing’ her recent interview video. In a tweet posted hours ago today, she said “really sad 2see how the interview Is edited to trivialis& be insensitive. Not everything is traction & as someone being interviewed I expected decency & maturity from a[Read More…]
Mumbai: Tamil film star Vishal Krishna, General Secretary of the South Indian Artistes Association and President of Tamil Film Producers Council, is working relentlessly with his peers to knock down the walls that separate sexual harassment in the different film industries in India. “Whether it is Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam or[Read More…]
As #MeToo hit the shores of India, women from all walks of life have stepped forward in sharing their unfortunate experience of sexual misconduct they experienced. Adding to the incidents and big bag of ordeal, recently 10 women from Bengaluru came together and created a comic strip, describing how they[Read More…]
Former Union Minister MJ Akbar came forward in his defence against rape allegations levelled by Journalist Pallavi Gogoi on Friday in Washington Post. Denying the rape accusations, MJ Akbar says that they had a consensual relationship. “Somewhere around 1994, Ms. Pallavi Gogoi and I entered into a consensual relationship that[Read More…]
#MeToo: MJ Akbar’s wife Mallika Joseph finally comes out in public to talk about the sexual misconduct allegations that enveloped her husband over the last few weeks after US-based journalist Pallavi Gogoi’s rape allegations went viral. Talking to ANI, Mallika Joseph says, “I have been silent all this while as[Read More…]
US-based, India born woman journalist and Chief Business Correspondent of National Public Radio (NPR) Pallavi Gogoi accused MJ Akbar of rape charges on Thursday in a long blog post. Gogoi is a former editor of The Asian Age. Those before me have given me the courage to reach into the[Read More…]
Mumbai: Singer Sona Mohapatra, who accused singers Kailash Kher and Anu Malik of sexual misconduct, says she didn’t think about how sharing her #MeToo story will impact her music career because it was for the bigger cause of a better future for the country. Sona interacted with the media at[Read More…]
The Me Too movement in India led to shocking revelations from women of the Indian Film Industry. Women who were working in Bollywood accused many prominent personalities of sexual misconduct. Amidst all the names that had been accused, Sajid Khan was one of the most shocking predators. The director had[Read More…]
Live updates The court has posted the matter for 12th November. MJ Akbar concludes his statement. He further adds, “There was immediate damage because of the scurrilous nature of these concocted and false allegations.” Talking about his life after the allegations did rounds, MJ Akbar says, “It has lowered my reputation[Read More…]
Mumbai: Tata Sons said on Monday that it would end its contract with brand consultant Suhel Seth, who has been accused of sexual harassment by several women in India’s #MeToo campaign. The holding firm of the Tata Group of companies said in a statement here that Seth will no longer[Read More…]
Sister Jesme, who recently left the Congregation of Mother of Carmel – an indigenous Religious Congregation has shared her horrific account at a literature festival held in Bengaluru. She talked about an incident in which a priest asked her to strip. She blamed the church of not standing up for[Read More…]
Bollywood Music director and Singer, Toshi Sabri denies the #MeToo allegations levelled against him by Singer Varsha Dhanoa. Sabri released an official statement where he called the allegations, a mere agenda of Varsha Dhanoa with her vested interests and denied and denied of any such incidences. Sabri took to Twitter[Read More…]
The unsparing ferocity with which #MeToo Movement is catching powerful and popular figures from cinema, media and music world in its octopus grip, it is hard to assume that this social media generated frenzy will not continue for another weeks and months to come. Instead, it shows that the movement,[Read More…]
Mumbai: Actor Ayushmann Khurrana has supported the #MeToo movement by saying that men should understand what consent is. Ayushmann visited the PVR Citi Mall here on Saturday to know the audience’s reaction for his latest film “Badhaai Ho”. Reacting to the #MeToo campaign that has gathered momentum in India, especially[Read More…]
Sony Television has asked Anu Malik to step down from Indian Idol following the #MeToo movement where women accused him of sexual harassment. The decision to remove the judge Malik from Indian Idol 10 was taken after an assistant producer on Indian Idol season 5 has revealed that the higher[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Actress Sruthi Hariharan on Saturday accused multilingual south Indian actor Arjun Sarja of sexually harassing her on the sets of a film in 2016. He has dismissed the claim. “I was shooting for a bilingual film which starred Arjun Sarja, a man whose movies I have grown up watching.[Read More…]
Mumbai: Celebrity photographer and film producer Atul Kasbekar has denied an anonymous allegation that he and “Cheat India” director Soumik Sen are “sleazebags who harass women with their powerplay”. In a statement on Twitter, Ellipsis Entertainment — which Kasbekar — co-owns, reacted on the allegation based on an anonymous tweet[Read More…]
The Me Too movement has certainly caused an uproar in India, especially in the movie industry, as more women open up about their horrific sexual harassment incidents, at the hands of powerful men. Names like Nana Patekar, Alok Nath, Sajid Khan, Rajat Kapoor, Vikas Bahl, Sushant Singh Rajput, Mukesh Chhabra[Read More…]
Casting director Mukesh Chhabra who turned director with film Kizie Aur Manny has run into trouble. The director had shared the first look of the film on his social media account recently. A leading daily reportedly recently that the film has been delayed due to the differences between the lead[Read More…]
#MeToo Movement: Sushant Singh Rajput has been accused of sexual misconduct by his “Kizie Aur Manny” co-star Sanjana Sanghi. In his defence, the actor shared screenshots of their SMS conversation and called it a “smear campaign”. Sushant on Friday tweeted snapshots of his conversation with Sanjana from the first day[Read More…]
The most substantial impact of the #MeToo movement, which took off in India following actress Tanushree Dutta’s sexual harassment allegations against actor Nana Patekar, is that people now will be wary of engaging in misconduct — whether or not the movement continues — says veteran actress Neena Gupta. Asked if[Read More…]
Since October 5, dozens of women, including actors and journalists, have taken to social media to give detailed accounts of the sexual harassment and misconduct they have faced. Adding to the row of event under #MeToo campaign, singer Shweta Pandit accused Bollywood music-composer Anu Malik of sexually harassing her when[Read More…]