Ever since Anurag Kashyap has been accused of sexual misconduct allegations by actress Payal Ghosh, Taapsee Pannu has been supportive of the filmmaker. Now, in an interview, the Thappad actress said that if the director has been found guilty, she will break all the ties with him.
Talking to Mumbai Mirror, Taapsee said, “If he is found guilty, I’ll be the first person to break all ties with him. But if the investigation is inconclusive, how can the sanctity of the #MeToo movement be sustained? How will real victims benefit from a power that’s come to us after years of suppression? It’s wrong for women to derail the movement. Abusing power isn’t gender-specific.”
The actress also stated that Anurag has a lot of ‘respect for women’ and ‘never badmouths anyone even if that person hasn’t been kind to him in public.’
She added, “Anurag is one of those rare sets where the number of women on the crew equals men, and they only have nice things to say about him. If someone has been harassed, let them initiate an investigation, let the truth come out.”
The Bollywood actresses who have worked with Anurag in the past, like, Richa Chadha, Huma Qureshi, Elnaaz Norouzi extended their support to him, his ex-wives Kalki Koechlin and Aarti Bajaj also came out in his support.
Payal Ghosh has filed an FIR against Anurag in Mumbai’s Versova Police station. “Finally FIR has been lodged against Accused for the offence Rape, Wrongful Restrain, Wrongful Confinement and outraging modesty of woman U/S 376(1), 354, 341, 342 of IPC(sic)”, tweeted Payal’s lawyer Nitin Satpute.
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