At first when Tanushree Dutta came forward with her ordeal of how Nana Patekar sexually harassed her in 2008, little did Tanushree knew that this will be start of a new movement where victims of sexual harassment will raise their voices. Many Bollywood personalities such as Rajat Kapoor, Alok Nath, Sajid Khan, Vikas Bahl to name a few have been accused of sexual harassment.
What comes as a welcome change is the fact that Bollywood actors such as Anushka Sharma, Arjun Kapoor and Varun Dhawan are supporting this victims and are even accepting that such incidents do take place in Bollywood. Another film personality who has urged men and women to come out and share their MeToo story is Supermodel Milind Soman.
Although Milind never had to go through such unfortunate thing, he did accepted that sexual harassment is a part of Fashion Industry. “Not really because when I started modeling, of course everybody today talks about casting couch concept in films and fashion as well but when I started, fashion was such a new industry that all of us were starting out together so there was no position of power or something like that could encourage this kind of an incident. For me, I was never subjected to this but I know it exists because people talk to me about it,” Milind told Republic TV.
When asked that like Bollywood its high time that people from fashion industry too should come out and share their MeToo stories if they have gone through, to which the actor said, “I think it’s very good. It is definitely something which is needed. Women and even men, in the fashion industry I would say that even men need to come out and talk about it because when we talk about the predatory aspect of the people in power, it is something that needs more awareness.”
