A female junior artist associated with Akshay Kumar’s film Housefull 4, was allegedly molested on the film sets on Thursday night. The junior artist talking to ANI said that she was sitting on the film sets with her male friend, when two men named Pawan Shetty and Sagar came with some other men. She further claimed that they started misbehaving with her friend and when she tried to intervene, they touched her inappropriately.
The junior artist said, “I was sitting with a colleague when suddenly two men, Pawan Shetty and Sagar, with four others came and tried to take away my colleague forcefully. When I tried to stop them, Shetty started pushing me and touched me inappropriately.”
She further added, “When I started screaming, the production people and actors Akshay Kumar and Riteish Deshmukh, came outside. They only gave us the idea that we should call the police. The accused men ran away when they saw the production people and others,”
Female junior artist allegedly molested near Housefull 4 sets
A First Information Report (FIR) has also been registered.
However, the executive producer of Housefull 4, Manoj Mitra in his statement said, “It is disheartening to hear about this incident. As an executive producer, I would like to clarify that the recent incident that showed up in the news related to the sets of Housefull 4, is something that evidently didn’t happen on the sets or during the shoot; it took place off the sets and hence I have to state that it is beyond our capabilities. I would also like to clarify that Akshay Kumar and Ritiesh Deshmukh had packed up way before this incident occurred. It was their personal matter and nothing related to our film shoot.”
