Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Roopa Ganguly alleged Monday that Mumbai film industry “kills people” and turns them into “drug addicts.” “The Mumbai film industry kills people, makes them addicted to drugs and keeps insulting a woman, but no one is doing anything. Mumbai police remain silent. It takes no action, ”Ganguly said.
Why is Bollywood silent on the sexual harassment charges brought by Payal Ghosh against Anurag Kashyap? Why is the Mumbai police taking no action against Anurag Kashyap? ” she asked.
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s lawyer on Monday rejected “false allegations of sexual misconduct” leveled against his client, calling them “completely false, malicious and dishonest.”
Actor Payal Ghosh had accused Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap of sexual harassment. The filmmaker has denied the allegations and said he intends to seek “legal recourse” to the “maximum extent”.
Issuing a statement through his lawyer, Kashyap also said he was saddened that a movement as important as #MeToo had been co-opted by vested interests and reduced to a “mere tool for character assassination.”
On Monday, the 48-year-old director spoke through his lawyer Priyanka Khimani: “My client, Anurag Kashyap, has been deeply hurt by the false allegations of sexual misconduct that have recently surfaced against him. These accusations are completely false, malicious and dishonest … ”
Khimani, calling Ghosh’s allegations fictitious, added that they seriously undermine the #MeToo movement and seek to bargain inordinately with the pain and trauma of actual victims of sexual harassment and abuse. “My client has been fully informed of her legal rights and remedies and intends to exercise them to the fullest extent possible,” the statement added.
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