metoo case: Mumbai police launched a "network of lies and deception" against me: Tanushree Dutta

Oshiwara police claimed the actor Tanushree Dutta . case against his fellow actor Nana Patekar with an intention "mailicious".

In their summary report B, the Mumbai police claim that Dutta had brought a lawsuit against Patekar, probably because she wanted a solo performance, and wished to avoid paying the compensation that the producer would have asked him for the cancellation of the filming. of the dance sequence, during which she alleged that Patekar had badaulted her. Police say Dutta has filed a "false complaint of malicious intent".

An AB summary report is filed when the police come to the conclusion that the complaint filed by the complainant is false. In this case, however, the police took the lead and mentioned the so-called "intent" behind Dutta, and called the complaint "malicious".

The report actually mentions that Sami Siddiqui, producer of the film Horn Ok Please of 2008 had notified Dutta that he would be asking for compensation for the canceled filming. The dance sequence in question was shot in the studio from March 23 to 26, 2008.

"It's what they did 10 years ago, and what they always do: build a network of lies and deceit around the incident for me. push back and drain my energy. Last year, they claimed in the media that I was taking drugs and that the shooting was stopped. Now, they claim that I wanted a solo sequence and so I stop shooting. They should decide why I stopped shooting, because now their own statements do not add up, "said Dutta over the phone by telephone in the United States.

"Nothing that they say makes any sense. Why should my truth be used to justify their lies? Does the police mean that I lost a job, a career after a "solo dance sequence" that I was already doing? And then submit to harbadment again?

The film was directed by Rakesh Sarang and choreographed by Ganesh Acharya. The police report states that, according to statements by Siddiqui, Sarang, Acharya and Patekar, Dutta was aware of the length of Nana's role in the song and that, during the five days of rehearsal of the song preceding the shooting, a dancer Junior had replaced Patekar.

The police relied on the statement of the principal accused, Patekar, to reach these conclusions. He said he did not know how to dance, contradicting Dutta's allegation that Patekar had badaulted her under the pretext of "teaching her steps." He also said that he had never repeated with Dutta.

Dutta went on: "If Nana dances so badly, why was she part of the song? This is the first time I hear about a mannequin. If he was so bad at dancing and always caught, why did not he repeat every four days?

"Nana being a bad dancer has nothing to do with her behavior on the set. He was trying to push me under the pretext of teaching me how to dance, because that's how the stalkers behave, "Dutta said.

While Dutta's complaint to the Cine & TV Artists Association (CINTAA) the day after the alleged fact – March 27, 2008 – mentioned the problem of badual badault, the police report quotes a meeting at the CINTAA office in the presence of Dutta, where only the payment of his work had been discussed, claiming that Dutta had never mentioned the issue of molestation.