'Jolly LLB' director Subhash Kapoor accused of sexual assault with Video
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a) to caution those girls who will come in contact with this man, Subhash Kapoor, socially or professionally and will make the mistake of looking up to him as father-figure or as an elder brother and trust him and
b) for all girls who, if god forbid become victims of sexual assault, not to give in to pleading of their attacker's wife, sister, mother, daughter or any woman who claims to be suffering and asks for your forgiveness for attacker. Dimple Kharbanda shamelessly attended film award functions within a week of this meeting that she did not know I was recording.
It is not easy to upload this. Like that sexual assault this too is invasion of my privacy that I am compelled to compromise by my own conscious to expose what Subash Kapoor did to me. A woman suffers in both the scenarios, when she stays quiet and when she speaks up.
I hope this fate does not befall on any woman anywhere.
The case of sexual favour for a meaty role in Bollywood in not a new story but the latest to fall prey of this unpleasant casting couch is actor Geetika Tyagi who accused the director of ‘Jolly LLB’ Subhash Kapoor of sexual assault. On Tuesday, Geetika has released a video on Youtube where she accused Subhash Kapoor of forcing himself on her about a year-and-a-half ago.
The video is loaded on youtube with the name, ‘Subhash Kapoor’s true face’. The video shows that Subhash’s wife Dimple Kharbanda, pleading Tyagi and her boyfriend, director Atul Sabharwal, to keep the matter private. "Sab kuch khatam ho gaya hai.. ek hi cheez bachhi hai, uss bachhe (their son) ka future”. Kharbanda was in tears and she was not able to speak, she was totally heartbroken.
Geetika’s voice was also heard, she was in tears saying, "I don’t know what to do," Kapoor says. Tyagi run to slap Kapoor.
Alongside the video, Tyagi has written, "My intentions of uploading this video is to caution those girls who will come in contact with this man, Subhash Kapoor, socially or professionally and will make the mistake of looking up to him as father-figure or as an elder brother and trust him and... for all girls who, if god forbid become victims of sexual assault, not to give in to pleading of their attacker’s wife, sister, mother, daughter or any woman who asks for your forgiveness for attacker... (sic)"
No sooner the video was loaded on site and the true face of Subhash Kapoor came into forefront, internet is buzz with comments. "Unbelievable. Power and big kudos to you! This would not have been easy". "It took a lot of courage but finally I did it. Thank you Atul!" Tyagi posted on Twitter, even though she did not respond to our repeated calls.
Sabharwal also tweeted, "May this end the mental suffering that you’ve been going through ever since."
Filmmaker Anand L Rai says that it’s very disturbing to hear about such instances. "Looks like the casting couch still exists. I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s the duty of a filmmaker to keep his image clean and focus on the creatives instead."
The video is loaded on youtube with the name, ‘Subhash Kapoor’s true face’. The video shows that Subhash’s wife Dimple Kharbanda, pleading Tyagi and her boyfriend, director Atul Sabharwal, to keep the matter private. "Sab kuch khatam ho gaya hai.. ek hi cheez bachhi hai, uss bachhe (their son) ka future”. Kharbanda was in tears and she was not able to speak, she was totally heartbroken.
Geetika’s voice was also heard, she was in tears saying, "I don’t know what to do," Kapoor says. Tyagi run to slap Kapoor.
Alongside the video, Tyagi has written, "My intentions of uploading this video is to caution those girls who will come in contact with this man, Subhash Kapoor, socially or professionally and will make the mistake of looking up to him as father-figure or as an elder brother and trust him and... for all girls who, if god forbid become victims of sexual assault, not to give in to pleading of their attacker’s wife, sister, mother, daughter or any woman who asks for your forgiveness for attacker... (sic)"
No sooner the video was loaded on site and the true face of Subhash Kapoor came into forefront, internet is buzz with comments. "Unbelievable. Power and big kudos to you! This would not have been easy". "It took a lot of courage but finally I did it. Thank you Atul!" Tyagi posted on Twitter, even though she did not respond to our repeated calls.
Sabharwal also tweeted, "May this end the mental suffering that you’ve been going through ever since."
Filmmaker Anand L Rai says that it’s very disturbing to hear about such instances. "Looks like the casting couch still exists. I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s the duty of a filmmaker to keep his image clean and focus on the creatives instead."
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