#MeToo: Alok Nath, 'Sanskari Bapuji' files defamation case against Tara producer Vinta Nanda over rape claims
Alok Nath, who is well known as Bollywood's most ‘sansaakri’ actor has been landed into a deep gorge of controversy after being accused of rape by writer-producer Vinta Nanda. Following which the Sonu Ke Tittu Ki Sweety actor files a defamation case against Vinta Nanda over rape accusation she made against him a few days ago under #MeToo movement.
#AlokNath has filed a defamation case against writer-producer Vinta Nanda, who had accused him of rape pic.twitter.com/kQUZ9ZTGPg
— ANI (@ANI) October 13, 2018
Vinta Nanda, a veteran writer-producer of the avant-garde 1990’s show ‘Tara’ had made serious allegation on the veteran actor Alok Nath that he had sexually harassed her almost two decades ago.
She took to Facebook to share her ordeal and wrote an emotional note that “Abuse takes a long time to fall into a form of a logical narrative. Sometimes it takes a lifetime and sometimes it never happens.”
She also wrote that ‘ I have waited for this moment to come for 19 years.’
She has directly targetted the actor Alok Nath by naming him as ‘the sanskaari actor’ because he is famous from this name in the Bollywood and TV industry.
She has also told to IANS that “It is Alok Nath. I thought to say 'sanskaari' would do the needful.”
Meanwhile, Nanda has raised her voice and also become the part of #MeToo wave that has brought the courage among the women who have faced such kind of assault during their lifetime or career.
First published: 13 October 2018, 12:25 IST