Tanushree Dutta who is best known for her glamorous roles in early 2000s is in the news again. For those who don’t know, Tanushree is a pageant winner who bagged many Bollywood films and was typecast as a quintessential item girl.

After her stint in Horn Ok Please, she got on the wrong foot with the media in 2008 after the makers of the movie cited that she threw tantrums on the sets and refused to come out of her vanity van. It was quite a scandal and Tanushree took off to the United States post this.

Talking about the popular #MeToo movement, which began after over 80 actresses in Hollywood accused producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, Tanushree slammed the Indian film industry's attitude to casting couch and sexual abuse.

She said, ‘The thing is that our country has become so hypocritical, and people constantly ask why #MeToo movement is not happening in India, it won't happen unless and until you'll acknowledge what happened with me in 2008.

‘Everybody saw what happened, but the memory and the popular perception of it is that 'Tanushree Dutta spoke up against harassment and then she was no more.' The entire industry saw what happened, but there was not one word of condemnation from anybody. Every single person in this country remembers my incident and this was something on national TV for three days, but even today there's a stoic silence on that. So, my question is, 'Who is going to believe these hypocrites?' These are the people who stand up and raise their voice against women empowerment,’ said Tanushree.

After about ten years, she finally spoke about this fateful incident and made some shocking revelations about her co-star Nana Patekar. She said that he is a habitual harrasser on sets and no one in the industry ever spoke against him. She also blamed big stars like Akshay Kumar and Rajinikanth for working with someone like Nana.

In 2008, Tanushree accused an actor of misbehaving with her on the sets of Horn Ok Pleasss. Apparently, she wasn't comfortable about doing an intimate step with Nana for a song and protested against it.

At the time, Tanushree had said that instead of choreographer Ganesh Acharya, the actor had started showing her the dance steps. Tanushree had made her displeasure clear at the actor's excessive closeness. Following this, she had locked herself up in the vanity van for 30 minutes. When she came out, she refused to shoot the item number.

‘He was grabbing me by the arms, pushing me around then he would ask the choreographers to move and teach me how to dance, and the next thing I know he wanted to do an intimate sequence with me. It was ridiculous,’ she had said back then. When she had declared that she was uncomfortable, the actor allegedly sought help from members from a political party, who broke Tanushree's car.

Tanushree revealed that Nana pushed her on the sets and wanted to do an intimate dance step with her which was not even the requirement of the song. She complained to the makers of the film who refused to pay heed to her and on the contrary wanted her to act according to his bidding. Because she refused to do the number, Rakhi Sawant was roped in. Tanushree said that Nana does the philanthropy work only to whitewash his image because everybody knows what he is behind his fake image. She even spoke about the casting couch and stated that only actresses who offer sexual favours to the lead actors get parts. She said that this is unchanged even today, more or less.