Filmmaker Rajat Kapoor Issues Apology On Twitter After 3 Women Accuse Him Of Sexual Misconduct

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In the wake of the #MeToo movement in India, a lot of women have come out to report instances of sexual harassment against men from the entertainment industry. After Nana Patekar, Vicky Bahl, and Kailash Kher, Rajat Kapoor is accused of harassing women he has previously worked with.

A journalist, Sandhya Menon released screenshots of two separate accounts on Twitter, accusing Indian filmmaker and actor, Rajat Kapoor of harassment.

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This is the first anonymous account where the woman, interviewing Rajat via telephonic conversation was inundated with questions like ‘Are you as sexy as you sound?’

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The second anonymous account accused Rajat Kapoor of asking an assistant director to ‘shoot a film’ for him ‘in an empty room’. The account also reported that Kapoor’s friend, Saurabh Shukla was also a complicit and that they were ‘probably preying on young women together’.

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Soon after these screenshots came out, Rajat released an apology on Twitter-

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