Mumbai, Sept 28: Tanushree Dutta sat down for a tell-all conversation with the media on Thursday afternoon, over her claims of harassment by veteran actor Nana Patekaron the sets of the 2008 film 'Horn Ok Pleassss’. Besides calling out Patekar for allegedly misbehaving with her, she also claimed that choreographer Ganesh Acharya, workers of Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, producer Sami Siddiqui and director of the film Rakesh Sarang were complicit. Speaking at length about her decision to set the record straight post the controversy her revelations have sparked up, the actress also recalled being threatened and attacked by Raj Thackeray’s MNS political party workers.
Recalling the “terror” her family had to go through, she said, “My sister was at home. She was in college at the time and was seeing her mother, father and elder sister stuck in a car and a dirty political party that has burned busses and caused so much damage is now attacking them. She thought that she would lose her family.”
“You three were on the sets, but I was at home and didn’t know if you’ll were coming back or not,” she quoted her sister saying.
Condemning the attack, the actress said that those days are far behind as she urged the industry to “boycott them.”
Interpreting the reason behind the attack, Tanushree said, “When irrelevant people try to prove their relevance, such things happen. He (Raj) has found goons like himself for his party and sends them to places to break things. Whoever wants to create havoc, calls these people. He wanted Balasaheb Thackeray’s seat and till today he has had difficulty becoming a leader. But you won’t become a leader and you won’t form the government because leaders take care of the weak, women and don’t put them down. They don’t attack women’s cars.”
Taking another jibe at Nana Patekar, she said, “He wanted to become a hero, but nobody made him one. Everyone around him became a hero, but he remained as a character artist. He wanted to become a hero so he misbehaved with girls and was unruly and would intimidate (girls). No actress considered him as a hero and when his tactics didn’t work, he joined hands with such a political party.”
When asked if she feared another such incident occurring once again, she vehemently struck it down saying, “They cannot touch me. If they even think about it, even that thought will destroy them. The one who has brought me into this world will be the one to take me away from it. If I am to have a “sudden accident”, then even Raj Thackeray can have a sudden accident. Lightning can strike him. There can be a short circuit. The same can happen to Nana Patekar. Anything can happen to anyone.”
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