A file {photograph} of Kalki Koechlin and Anurag Kashyap.
Highlights
- Anurag has been accused of sexual harassment by Payal Ghosh
- “Do not let this social media circus get to you,” tweeted Kalki
- Anurag Kashyap’s first spouse Aarti Bajaj additionally defended the filmmaker
New Delhi:
Anurag Kashyap’s ex-wives Kalki Koechlin and Aarti Bajaj defended the filmmaker after he was hit by allegations of sexual harassment over the weekend. Actress Kalki Koechlin, who was married to Mr Kashyap from 2011 to 2015, and Aarti Bajaj, Mr Kashyap’s spouse from 2003 to 2009, each shared supportive posts on social media. Anurag Kashyap has been accused of sexual misconduct by actress Payal Ghosh, which he denies. In her publish, Kalki Koechlin wrote, “Pricey Anurag, Do not let this social media circus get to you. You’ve fought for the liberty of girls in your individual scripts, you’ve got defended their integrity in your skilled house in addition to your private life.”
Kalki, who made her Bollywood debut in Anurag Kashyap’s 2009 movie DevD and has labored with the filmmaker in a number of initiatives, together with That Woman In Yellow Boots and Netflix’s Sacred Video games 2, wrote citing her private experiences with the director, ” I’ve been a witness to it. Within the private {and professional} house, you have got all the time seen me as your equal, you have got stood up for my integrity even after our divorce, and you’ve got supported me once I felt unsafe in a piece surroundings even earlier than we acquired collectively.”
Kalki Koechlin, who shares a cordial relationship together with her ex-husband, signed off the word saying, “Love from an ex-wife.” She wrote, “This unusual time the place everybody will get to abuse each other and make false claims with none repercussions is a harmful and repulsive one. It’s destroying households, associates and international locations. However there’s a place of dignity that exists past this digital blood bathtub, a spot of you, a spot of being form even when nobody is trying, and I do know that you’re very accustomed to that place. Grasp on to that dignity, keep sturdy and hold doing the work you do.”
Learn Kalki’s publish right here:
tho pic.twitter.com/tMl7GlRU6o
— Kalki (@kalkikanmani) September 21, 2020
On Sunday, Anurag Kashyap’s first spouse and editor Aarti Bajaj shared an intensive word on her Instagram deal with, the place she summed up her equation with the director, highlighting each the private in addition to skilled aspects. “First spouse right here… You’re a rockstar, Anurag Kashyap. Hold empowering girls as you do and the most secure place you create for all of them. I see it first hand with our daughter (their daughter Aaliyah Kashyap).”
She added, “There isn’t a integrity left and the world is filled with losers and no brains baying for blood of anybody who has a voice. If everyone spends the power which they use in hating others constructively this world might be a greater place. Least expensive stunt I’ve seen until now. First it made me offended then I laughed so onerous because it can’t come extra framed then this. I’m sorry that it’s important to undergo this .That is the extent of them. You keep excessive and hold utilizing your voice. We love you.”
Private relations apart, the ladies from the movie trade who’ve starred in Anurag Kashyap’s directorial initiatives additionally spoke up in opposition to the claims they usually shared their expertise of working with the filmmaker. “For you, my pal, are the largest feminist I do know. See you on the units quickly of yet one more piece of artwork that exhibits how highly effective and important girls are on the planet you create,” wrote Taapsee Pannu, who starred in Anurag Kashyap’s Marmarziyaan.
Sacred Video games star Radhika Apte wrote these phrases: “You’ve all the time handled me as an equal and I cherish the mutual love and respect we’ve got for one another. I’ve all the time felt immensely safe in your presence for the reason that day I’ve recognized you.”
Actress Payal Ghosh, in a latest interview with ABN Telugu, accused Anurag Kashyap of getting “pressured himself” on her. Responding to her allegations, Anurag Kashyap issued a lawyer’s statement, an excerpt from which learn, “It’s unhappy {that a} social motion as essential because the #MeToo motion has been co-opted by vested pursuits and lowered to a mere instrument for character assassination. Fictitious allegations of this nature significantly undermine the motion and search to consciously commerce upon the ache and trauma of precise victims of sexual harassment and abuse.”
And right here is the assertion from my lawyer @PriyankaKhimani .. on my behalf .. thank You pic.twitter.com/0eXwNnK5ZI
— Anurag Kashyap (@anuragkashyap72) September 20, 2020
Again in 2018, when the #MeToo motion gained momentum in Bollywood, and filmmaker Vikas Bahl’s identify was implicated, Anurag Kashyap, co-founder of the manufacturing home Phantom Movies (together with Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane and Madhu Mantena), dissolved the corporate.
By way of work, Anurag Kashyap, a TIFF veteran, has been invited as one of many high 50 ambassadors on the Toronto Movie Fest, this 12 months. Different well-known ambassadors for this 12 months embody the likes of Priyanka Chopra, Martin Scorsese, Taika Waititi, Nicole Kidman, Rosamund Pike, Alfonso Cuaron and Riz Ahmed.
