Actor Richa Chadha on Monday said she has initiated “appropriate” action after her name was dragged during a “defamatory” manner by actor Payal Ghosh, who has accused filmmaker Anurag Kashyap of harassment .
On Saturday, Ghosh took to Twitter, claiming that the “Gangs of Wasseypur” director was sexually inappropriate towards her, an allegation Kashyap called “baseless”.
In a video released to ABN Telugu, Ghosh claimed that the incident happened in 2014-2015.
The actor, who made her Hindi debut with Rishi Kapoor-Paresh Rawal starrer “Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi”, also claimed that Kashyap boasted about his reference to megastar Amitabh Bachchan and claimed that there have been other female artistes who he got intimate , including Chadha.
Chadha took to Twitter to share her lawyer Saveena Bedi Sachar’s statement.
“Our Client has initiated appropriate action and shall further pursue her legal rights and remedies in law as could also be advised in her best interest.”
The statement further read that the “Fukrey” star condemns her name being “unnecessarily and falsely dragged during a defamatory manner” into controversies and allegations raised by “third parties.”
“Though our client believes that genuinely wronged women should get justice in the least costs, there are legislations that are intended to make sure that ladies have an equal standing in their workplace and to make sure that they need a cordial workplace during which their dignity and self-respect is protected.
“No woman are often allowed to misuse their liberties to harass other women with unsubstantiated or non-existent, false and baseless allegations.”
When a Twitter user criticized the actor for speaking against casting couch within the past and now siding with Kashyap, Chadha called her out for being agenda driven.
Attempt to rape may be a serious allegation. She should have gone to the cops. you think that feminism is women dragging your name in an obscene, unnecessary way in their personal battles? So I can make cheap allegations about you on TV? Your agenda has blinded you towards truth. Shame, the actor wrote back .
Kashyap, too, shared a press release from his lawyer, Priyanka Khimani, that said the 48-year-old director has been “fully advised of his rights and remedies in law and intends to pursue them to the fullest extent.”
