After Navina Bole, Esha Gupta Accuses Sajid Khan Of Inappropriate Habits & Abuse And I Marvel How The Humshakal Director’s Crass Habits Was Normalized For All These Years! [Opinion]

It was after the appearance of MeToo within the yr 2018 that many ladies got here out with their harrowing tales within the movie business whereby they opened up about dealing with sexual misconduct and harassment. Amid this, if there was one individual whose title got here below the scanner incessantly, it was director Sajid Khan. Round 6 to eight ladies shockingly accused him of sexual misconduct and harassment. Now, actress Esha Gupta joins the queue whereby she accused the director of abusing her on the set of Humshakals.

Esha Gupta Recollects Sajid Khan Abusing Her On The Humshakals Set

Based on a report in Pinkvilla, Esha Gupta recalled in an interview with Siddharth Kanan how Sajid Khan abused her on the set of Humshakals which made her virtually stroll out of the movie. She budged solely when the producer of the film and Sajid himself apologized to her. Nonetheless, the Jannat star hinted that the filmmaker handed some extraordinarily problematic feedback which didn’t go down properly along with her. She stated, “Kuch log baat karne se pehle sochte nahi hai… annoyed hote hai.”

Sajid Khan’s Behavioral Historical past Of Being Inappropriate And Downright Crass

Simply two months again, in April, actress Navina Bole additionally opened up about her plight when the Heyy Child director requested her to strip off her garments and sit in entrance of him in a bikini again throughout an audition when she had participated within the Gladrags pageant. The actress was left so traumatized that she made an excuse to go away his home and never return indefinitely.

Other than this mannequin Paula additionally accused him of inappropriately touching her and asking her to strip throughout an audition by way of a social media submit in September 2020. A journalist had alleged that Sajid Khan forcibly kissed her within the early 2000s when she had gone to his home for an interview. Khan’s former assistant director Saloni Chopra together with actresses Rachel White, Mandana Karimi and Aahana Kumra additionally recalled their harrowing experiences with the Housefull director.

Not solely was there no correct investigation for Sajid Khan even in any case these tales however the director was as a substitute, given a platform like Salman Khan’s Bigg Boss 16 to revamp his profession. The present virtually introduced in some sympathy for him to showcase him as a person who has undergone a whole lot of victimization and ache in his life. Think about the trauma this will need to have brought about to his victims to see their abuser being given a nationwide platform to revive his picture? Not solely is that this problematic however this additionally dangerously normalizes individuals meting out such inappropriate behaviour and getting away with it.

Solely Sajid Khan being ousted from Housefull 4 because the director mustn’t have been the one answer to his inappropriate habits in opposition to so many ladies. There was a necessity of a correct investigation of the filmmaker taking a powerful accountability of his actions which to my information, by no means occurred. Though as a poetic justice, the director’s filmmaking profession has reached a dud however did the ladies who had come out with their traumatic experiences with him, get their justice? I definitely don’t suppose so.

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