Days after Tanushree Dutta accused Nana Patekar of sexually harassing her on the sets of Horn Ok Pleassss, eyewitness Daisy Shah has come forward in support of her. Read on for more details.
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A host of celebrities including Priyanka Chopra, Sonam Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen, Anurag Kashyap, Richa Chadha and Swara Bhaskar among others have raised their voice and supported Tanushree Dutta in her sexual assault allegations against Nana Patekar. While Nana Patekar has denied the allegations, eye-witnesses continue to back Tanushree's story.
Daisy Shah, who was an assistant choreographer to Ganesh Acharya on Horn Ok Pleassss, has shared that as a woman, she totally stands by Tanushree. In an interaction with Bollywood Hungama, Daisy has shared her side of the story stating that while she doesn't know what actually went on, she's aware that something happened on day 3rd of the song. She also made it clear that it must have been tough for Tanushree to open up about the ordeal and that she totally sympathises with her.
She has been quoted as saying, “My job was to give Tanushree the steps, make her learn them and then help her execute. Now what Tanushree has said that I and she had a great rapport. Yes, because we rehearsed for 3-4 days before shooting song and on the sets also for first 2 days everything went very swiftly and on the third day something happened which I am not aware of but Tanushree, being a woman, she has come out and she has said that this is what she has gone through. So I totally sympathize with her.”
Daisy further added, “But, I mean, I can’t say anything. Because I don’t even know whether the producer is right or whether the director is right or whether the artist is right but as a woman I totally stand by Tanushree Dutta.”
While a few people on the internet are terming this a “publicity stunt”, Daisy feels nobody would want to talk about all these things and Tanushree's story should inspire other women to speak up their stories, if they have ever faced any such harassment. She has been quoted as saying, “Why would anybody want to talk about sexual harassment that person has gone through and that too after a decade. There must be a lava inside her that bursted out after ten years and why not! I mean she has gone through it and she should definitely speak up. Because if women like her come out , there are a lot of other women who can actually get that courage from people like Tanushree.”
Daisy also backed the claim that there was a lot of chaos on the sets of the song and while she say she isn't aware of the exact thing that happened on the third day of the shoot, the wind sheild of Tanushree's car did crack that day. She shared that first half of the day went well but later Tanushree “came out, rehearsed for the song and then she went and locked herself in the vanity van”. She told the portal, “And now in midst of this I don’t know what happened. I don’t know what happened when she was rehearsing for that particular step. Must be something. She must have been touched in a wrong way or whatever it is. So that is something and again, me as an assistant, I was not only there to teach the steps to Tanushree, there was a big setup. We had 60-70 dancers. So the assistant choreographer’s job is also to set up the entire shot. So in the midst of that something might have gone wrong with her, then she went and locked herself in the vanity van for almost 3-4 hours. And then the media was called and then the entire “hoo-haa” happened and Tanushree had a really hard time.” She added that it wasn't just Tanushree but most people at Filmistaan that day had difficulty in getting out of the studio that night as all their cars were blocked.
To Rakhi Sawant's accusation that Tanushree was high on drugs in her vanity van and that's why she didn't shoot the song, Daisy made it clear that Tanushree was accompanied by her mother that day. She has been quoted as saying, “I never entered Tanushree’s van so I can not comment on this but one thing I am sure that on that day, when the entire incident took place, Tanushree’s mom was with her. So no person in the right state will dope with mother being around.”
For the uninitiated, Tanushree has accused Nana Patekar of sexually harassing her on the sets of Horn Ok Pleassss during the shoot of a song over 10 years back.
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