After Tanushree Dutta's shocking revelations about harassment on the sets of 2008 film Horn OK Please, several Bollywood personalities have come out in support of the former beauty queen. While many have chosen to stay mum, celebs like Sonam Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Parineeti Chopra, Swara Bhaskar and many others have tweeted showing their support for Tanushree.
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Recently in an interview, Tanushree revealed that how her dance steps were changed in accordance with Nana Patekar as he tried to misbehave with her. ''He was being aggressive and was pushing me around. I complained about him, but it was not heard. They (film crew) were forcing me to do an intimate step. My contract stated that it was a solo dance sequence, and it was not supposed to be a duet. It was a way to manipulate me,'' she said. However, Nana has laughed off the allegations.
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Now, former actress Raveena Tandon has taken to the micro-blogging site to speak about harassment in the industry. In her tweet, she mentioned how actors flirt and destroy the career of actress and then start looking for the next target. ''What defines harassment in a workplace?The fact that many industry wives/girlfriends are silent observers or instigators, when actor husbands destroy the actresses careers after the chase and flirtation is over,have them replaced with other potential targets?,'' she tweeted.
Raveena also shared a blog which she had written 'long ago'. Her blog reads that in the 90s, married actors would have affair with heroines and they would expect them to keep it secret.
In a series of tweets, the actress said that she has worked with Nana and heard about his volatile temper but never witnessed it. She also said that today there is social media but during the 90s there were only gossipy magazines. Check out the tweets below:
Soon after Raveena's tweet, her followers started linking it to her alleged relationship with Akshay Kumar. For uninitiated, Raveena and Akshay's on-screen and off-screen chemistry in the 90s grabbed eyeballs. There were speculations about them tying the knot, however, the duo parted their ways.
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