Tanushree Dutta alleges Vivek Agnihotri had told her 'kapde utaar ke naacho'
Tanushree Dutta accused Vivek Agnihotri of behaving inappropriately with her during the making of Chocolate.
Tanushree Dutta opened a can of worms with her shocking allegations of sexual misconduct against Nana Patekar. She accused him of getting too close for comfort while shooting for a special song for Horn Ok Pleassss.
Now, in an interview with a leading daily, Tanushree has claimed that she was also sexually harassed by her Chocolate director Vivek Agnihotri during the making of the film.
"I was wearing a towel on my costume and standing behind the camera. This guy (Vivek Agnihotri) wanted me to give cues to an actor (Irrfan). 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,'" she narrated.
However, Irrfan came to her rescue and told Vivek that he did not need such cues. "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," Tanushree revealed.
Elaborating about the ridiculousness of Vivek's demand, she said, "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 in his close-up shot? This director tells me 'jao jaake kapde utaar ke naacho'. I was shocked!"
Tanushree said that Irrfan was "horrified" by the filmmaker's inappropriate remarks and shut him down immediately. "He just told the director, 'What are you talking about? I can give my close-up. 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 aaun kya wahaan cues dene ke liye?'" she said.
She added that Suniel gave Vivek a piece of his mind, and it was because of people like him and Irrfan that she was not disillusioned by Bollywood. However, after the incident with Nana in 2008, she bid adieu to her acting career.
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