After a Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta levelled allegations against actor Nana Patekar, women are openly calling out their sexual harassers. While a number of Bollywood celebrities including actors, directors, producers and singers got stuck in #MeToo controversies. Terribly Tiny Tales (TTT) co-founder Chintan Ruparel is the latest one. TTT, quite[Read More…]
#MeToo gaining momentum is a good sign, says Bollywood famous actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. With this, she becomes the latest Bollywood start to talk about sexual harassment after Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar, Twinkle Khanna, and Priyanka Chopra. Support from the leading actresses from Bollywood has given[Read More…]
Mumbai: “Queen” director Vikas Bahl has sent a legal notice to his former Phantom Films partners Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane, whom he has called “opportunists” for making “defamatory allegations” in the wake of the ongoing #MeToo movement. Bahl was last year accused of sexual harassment by a former employee[Read More…]
While Tanushree Dutta-Nana Patekar controversy engulfed Bollywood, more women have gather courage to speak up of their #MeToo experiences across the media industry. In a yet another shocking development, a flight attendant on Tuesday alleged that Bollywood singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya sexually harassed her, ‘almost kissing and nibbling me on my left ear.’ The[Read More…]
#MeToo flames now sweeping across social media have turned into a cleansing firestorm, burning holes in carefully honed public personas and turning the heat back on those whose job is to keep the social conscience and hold the powerful to account. Many women and men have come forward and the #Metoo[Read More…]
Mumbai: Writer-producer Vinta Nanda, who has made allegation of sexual assault against Alok Nath, on Tuesday said that for the first time after 20 years she is feeling fearless to talk about the incident. Vinta Nanda was interacting with the media here. With the #MeToo movement gaining momentum in India[Read More…]
New Delhi: The #MeToo movement that has caused a storm in the film industry and singed newsrooms reached the Modi government with former editor and Union minister M.J. Akbar being named for sexual harassment by two journalists in the social media. A day after journalist Priya Ramani levelled allegations against[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 9 (IANS) Celebrated actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan looks at the #MeToo movement gaining momentum as a positive sign and she believes that talking on women empowerment should be a continuous process. “I think it is a good sign how the #MeToo movement is gaining[Read More…]
Mumbai: Vinta Nanda, a veteran writer-producer of the avant-garde 1990s’ show “Tara” fame, has accused actor Alok Nath — known for his “sanskaari” on-screen image — of sexually violating her almost two decades ago. “I have waited for this moment to come for 19 years,” Nanda wrote in a long,[Read More…]
Indian digital and mobile entertainment platform Hotstar has cancelled “On Air with AIB Season 3” after reports emerged of All India Bakchod (AIB) comedy group members involved in a sexual harassment case in the ongoing #MeToo movement which is being called India’s MeToo movement. pic.twitter.com/NNVU3tLcz7 — Hotstar (@hotstartweets) October 8, 2018