MUMBAI – Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput has dismissed reports on social media that he made his co-star uncomfortable on the sets of a film as a “well-timed and agenda-driven smear campaign”. Reports of the actor “flirting” with newcomer Sanjana Sangh and making her “uncomfortable while filming” appeared on social media recently.
It was also reported that Ms Sanghi’s parents had to intervene after director Mukesh Chhabra did not take a stand. On Friday, the 32-year-old actor shared screenshots of his conversations with Ms Sanghi on Twitter and Instagram to make his case and left it to the Internet to decide on whether he was being falsely blamed.
He wrote: “I feel sad to reveal personal information but it seems that there is no other way to state what actually happened, in the midst of this curated, well-timed and agenda drove smear campaign.
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Mukesh Chhabra has tweeted in support of Sushant Singh Rajput and suggested “somebody else’s ulterior motive” behind the reports.
“I totally stand by Sushant Singh Rajput – no such incident happened on the sets and let’s not have a Twitter trial and make an innocent person suffer for somebody else’s ulterior motives I had clarified this on twitter long back and I still maintain it,” Mr Chhabra tweeted late on Thursday night.
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Meanwhile, Mukesh Chabbra has been suspended from the post of director Kizie Aur Manny after he was named and shamed by two anonymous aspiring actresses in their #MeToo stories.
In the on-going #MeToo movement in India, celebrities such as Alok Nath, Vikas Bahl and Nana Patekar have been called out for sexual harassment. Several members of the film industry like Painter Jatin Das have also said that they’ve been falsely accused.
