The industry is coming together to raise its voice against sexual harassers with several celebrities naming and shaming the predators in Bollywood. From Nana Patekar, Sajid Khan, Subhash Ghai to Alok Nath, Kailash Kher, Anirban Das Blah, Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Anu Malik; a lot of names have cropped up. The latest celebrity to have a take on the #MeToo movement is Milind Soman. He has been in the industry since a very long time and continues to be a celebrated personality in the fashion world. Not to mention, women go weak in their knees every time they even hear his name! Farah IGNORES Questions on Sajid Khan's #MeToo Episode.
Sharing his take on the ongoing #MeToo movement, Milind was quoted saying, "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."
And as for those coming forth and sharing their #MeToo stories, he 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."
While some of those who have been accused have blatantly rubbished claims of the victims, there have been a couple of them who have apologized for their misconduct. Tanushree Dutta was the first one to actually call out Nana Patekar and accuse him of misconduct. Ever since then, there has been no stopping to the list of women coming out and calling out predators.
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