#MeToo: Woman accused Sanju actor Vicky Kaushal's father and action director Sham Kaushal for sexual harassment
Bollywood is under #MeToo threat these days and day by day many names are coming for #MeToo campaign. Now two women have accused veteran action director Sham Kaushal for sexual harassment. A woman named Namita Prakash shared her #MeToo story on social media and her allegations are that action director Sham Kaushal showed her porn film on phone and also forced her to drink vodka in 2006 outdoor shoot.
The woman who was assistant director on the film shared her story, "Back in 2006 on an outdoor shoot, Shyam Kaushal, the famous and award-winning Bollywood stunt director decided that I should be going to his room after wrap to drink vodka, the sound of that was just so wrong that I lied to him and told him I don’t drink at all."
This is my story and i stand by it, Thank You @AGirlOfHerWords #metoo #timesup https://t.co/ZuadGiXFyr
— Nameeta Prakash (@namabird7) October 14, 2018
She further added, “When I stuck my ground, he picked up his phone and suddenly plugged it in-front of me with a porn MMS video clip on it, I told my line producer about it within half an hour of it happening and she was appalled but didn’t know what she could do at that point but she did make sure I was never alone with the stunt team on any of the stunt days on the rest of the schedule. When this incident happened I was alone with Shyam Kaushal..."
He really thought he could getaway with murder. https://t.co/d62CtRoTgO
— Nameeta Prakash (@namabird7) October 14, 2018
Significantly, both actor Vicky Kaushal who was appreciated for his perfomrances inthe films like Sanju, Raazi, Raman Raghav 2.0 and others. Whether father Sham Kaushal is very vetaran in his professional and he had worked in several films.
First published: 15 October 2018, 11:52 IST