Tanushree Dutta recently posted a video on her Instagram handle, where she claimed that she has been harassed and troubled in her own home. The Aashiq Banaya Aapne actress came in the limelight when she accused actor Nana Patekar of sexual harassment in 2018, starting the MeToo movement in India. Ever since, she has been complaining about harassment at her home and during her many temple visits.
In a new video, the actress broke down as she claimed, “I am being harassed in my own house. I just called the cops and they have asked me to come to the police station to lodge a proper complaint. I will probably go tomorrow or day after. I am not well. I have been harassed so much in the past five years that I have fallen sick.” The actress shared that these incidents have taken a toll on her. “I am unable to work. My entire house has been messy. I can’t hire maids because they plant them in my house. I have had terrible experience with maids who come in and steal and do other things. People bang the door of my house. I am being troubled, please help me.”
Sharing another video, which had a noisy background, the actress wrote, “I have also dealt with loud noises like this and other very very loud banging noises above my roof and outside my door almost every day at odd hours since 2020 ! I got tired of complaining to the building management and gave up a few years ago. Now I just live with it and put headphones with mantras to distract my mind and keep my sanity.”
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She added, “Today I was so unwell, as you guys know I have developed Chronic fatigue syndrome due to dealing with constant stress and anxiety for last 5 years and this was going on all day and evening way past acceptable and allowed hours! Imagine..Yesterday I posted and today this! Ab samajh jao sab log ki what I’ve been dealing with. Aur bhi bohut kuch hai jo FIR mein mention karoongi. (There are many more things which I will mention in the FIR.”
Previously, talking to SCREEN, Tanushree had claimed that the maids she hired were manipulated into harassing her. “After I hired a maid, I started to be sick often. I am usually a morning person, but then I started to feel lazy to get out of my bed. I doubted if there was something fishy. I avoided drinking the water at home, and I began to feel okay. The maid was mixing something in my water. Have caught them red-handed calling up someone before and after entering my house.”
Over the years, Tanushree has spoken about several incidents of being followed by strangers or harassed at hotels she stayed in during her temple visits, claimed they are linked to her allegations against Nana Patekar.
In a 2018 interview with Zoom TV, actress Tanushree Dutta accused Nana Patekar of sexually harassing her on the sets of the 2009 film Horn Ok Pleasss. This began the MeToo movement in India. She had first made the allegations against the actor in 2008 by filing a complaint with the Cine and TV Artistes Association but no action was taken as the case was considered a criminal case. It was again brought up in 2013, but didn’t gain attention. The actress has also accused filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri of misbehaviour.
