These two eyewitnesses confirm Tanushree Dutta’s allegations to be true

Tanushree Dutta’s allegations against Nana Patekar of sexually assaulting her has sparked a controversy. Not only Nana Patekar, but Tanushree has also taken the name of Ganesh Acharya, who was the choreographer of the movie ‘Horn ‘OK’ Pleassss’. Also in an interview, she raised everyone’s eyebrows revealing that director Vivek Agnihotri asked her to strip on the sets of the movie ‘Chocolate’. While Ganesh Acharya and Nana Patekar have turned down all the allegations, two eyewitnesses have supported her side of the story. Shyni Shetty, who was the assistant director on the sets of Horn ‘OK’ Pleassss has verified the whole incident. Also, journalist Janice Sequeira had earlier said that she was there when the incident happened in 2008.

Shyni told indianexpress.com,“This was an item song that we were filming in Filmistaan. A little bit of work was pending. For the first two days we didn’t really shoot, so that day we were rehearsing. Generally, when a song is shot, there’s not much to do for the ADs because choreographer can take care of it. We were on set and we were all watching the rehearsals and at one point, I could clearly see that Tanushree was uncomfortable about a certain step or a way a certain step was being rehearsed. It was happening at a little distance from me so I didn’t know what exactly the conversations were but I could tell that she was really uncomfortable.”

She also tweeted responding to the tweet of Janice. Here’s her tweet.

Everything in this thread happened exactly the way it’s written. It was my first film as an AD. I was proud of what you did then, @TanushreeDutta and I’m proud of you today. https://t.co/5IX01qn0nb

— Shyni Shetty (@SceneSorted) September 27, 2018

Janice Sequeira who is the first eyewitness cited the whole incident in a series of tweets.

Some incidents that take place even a decade ago remain fresh in your memory. What happened with #TanushreeDutta on the sets of “Horn Ok Please” is one such incident – I was there. #NanaPatekar

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— Janice Sequeira (@janiceseq85) September 26, 2018

Also read: Here’s what Nana Patekar’s lawyer has to say on the controversy