Richa Chadha shared this photo (courtesy of therichachadha)
Highlight
- Richa issued a statement regarding the Anurag Kashyap dispute.
- Richa Chadha will take legal action in this regard.
- “No woman should abuse her freedoms,” said her statement.
New Delhi:
Actress Richa Chadha sent a legal notice to the actress who accused filmmaker Anurag Kashyap of sexual harassment, Ms Chadha announced on social media Monday night; Ms. Chadha previously said in a lawyer’s statement that she “condemns the fact that her name is unnecessarily and falsely dragged in a derogatory manner into controversies and accusations recently raised by third parties.” Richa Chadha is one of the three actresses invoked by the Kashyap accuser in an interview with ABN Telugu. He claims that Anurag Kashyap described Ms Chadha and the other women as “just a phone call away” to which the actress claims to have replied: “You’ve given Richa Chadha, Mahie Gill, Huma Qureshi … girls a chance. nominal in appearance. Directors generally don’t give them a chance, but you’ve done a great job. But I’m not mentally ready for this right now. “
On Monday morning, Richa Chadha issued this statement made on behalf of her attorney: ‘Our client’, Ms. Richa Chadha ‘, condemns the fact that her name is unnecessarily and falsely dragged in a derogatory manner into controversies and complaints made recently by third parties. Although our Client believes that genuinely aggrieved women should obtain justice at all costs, there are laws that aim to ensure that women have an equal position in their workplace and to ensure that they have a friendly workplace where their dignity and self-esteem. protected. No woman should abuse her freedoms to harass other women with unfounded or non-existent, false and unsubstantiated accusations. Our client has initiated the appropriate legal action and will continue to exercise his legal rights and the legal remedies that are advised to him in his best interest. “
In an update posted Monday night, Ms Chadha said the actress had been sent an electronic copy of the legal notice; a hard copy delivered to her home was rejected. Read the post here.
Anurag Kashyap cast Richa Chadha for her breakout role as Nagma Khatoon in her two-part crime drama Gangs of Wasseypur in 2012. Huma Qureshi debuted in the same project; Mahie Gill starred in the acclaimed 2009 Mr Kashyap film Dev D.
Read Richa Chadha’s full statement here:
Anurag Kashyap has vigorously denied the allegations of sexual harassment and has also issued a lawyer’s statement: “‘My client, Anurag Kashyap, has been deeply hurt by the false allegations of sexual misconduct that have recently been raised against him. These accusations They are completely false, malicious and dishonest. It is sad that a social movement as important as the #metoo movement has been co-opted by vested interests and reduced to a mere tool for character assassination. Fictitious allegations of this nature seriously undermine the movement and they seek to unscrupulously trade the pain and trauma of actual victims of sexual harassment and abuse. My client has been informed of his legal rights and remedies and intends to pursue them to the fullest extent possible. “
Actress Kangana Ranaut, who tweeted in support of the actress who accused Kashyap, commented offensively about Anurag Kashyap’s failed marriages. In response, Kashyap’s former partners, Aarti Bajaj (divorced in 2009) and Kalki Koechlin (divorced in 2015), jumped to his defense. “Don’t let this social media circus get to you,” Kalki wrote as Aarti Bajaj shared, “Keep empowering women like you.”
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