27-year old actor Sayali Bhagat - who has starred in The Train and Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap, and will be seen shortly in Tinu Verma’s The Weekend – has called Bollywood “an industry filled with lechers who treat women like me like a piece of meat.”
She announced that she was quitting Bollywood for good and would move to Milan to pursue a career in modeling. But before quitting, she wanted to bare her heart about the passes and sexual advances senior and respected actors and directors have made towards her in the seven years she has been in Bollywood.
Sayali said that she would be lodging a police complaint against Shiney Ahuja and his wife Anupam.
“But Shiney is not the only one who has made passes at me or sexually harassed me in the film industry. I would like to bring to the media’s notice some first hand experiences,” she says in a note sent out by her talent management agency Crème Talent Management.
Among those she has accused of making advances towards her include: Amitabh Bachchan (she accuses him of feeling up her butt when she bent down to take his blessings at the first look of Tinu Verma’s This Weekend recently), Sajid Khan(during the casting of Housefull she says “he stripped naked in front of me and asked me to have sex with him in his office”), and Aarya Babbar (her costar inChoron Ki Baraat; “he has been sending me countless lewd messages and graphic MMS’ of his private parts trying to lure me into bed”).
She further adds that “there are so many of us who are silently suffering this kind of harassment for so many years. But I can’t take it anymore. I am fed up of being treated like an available piece of meat and the only reason I am sharing all this with my media friends, is because I don’t believe in taking harassment lying down. It is high time the truth came out. I will be filing police complaints against Shiney, Sajid, Aarya and Mr Bachchan and take them all to court if need be.”
Clearly, Sayali believes in going out with a big bang.
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