Mumbai: Tanushree Dutta, who opened up a huge can of worms in Hindi film industry when she accused Nana Patekar of sexual harassment, has slammed Aamir Khan for his decision to work with #MeToo accused director Subhash Kapoor.
In an interview with a YouTube channel, Tanushree criticised Aamir for taking a u-turn and return to play the lead role in the Gulshan Kumar biopic Mogul which will be helmed by the tainted filmmaker.
Tanushree said, for individuals like Aamir who have all the might to bring about change in the industry with their power and position should not sympathize with those who are accused of sexual harassment.
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The former beauty queen also asked why people fail to understand the hardships a woman has to face to achieve something in life irrespective of the industry she works in. Tanushree said that incidents such as abuse and harassment jolts a woman's livelihood.
Tanushree also said that the film fraternity is brimming with hypocrites who don't walk the talk but the public is smart enough to judge their actions and in the times of social media people can't be fooled.
For the unversed, Aamir's decision to quit the flick came after director Subhash Kapoor was found involved in a sexual harassment case last year.
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In October 2018, Aamir took to Twitter to issue a joint statement along with his wife Kiran Rao stating that "at Aamir Khan Productions we have always had a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour of any kind".
"It was brought to our attention that someone we were about to begin work with has been accused of sexual misconduct. So, without casting any aspersions on anyone involved in this case, we have decided to step away from this film," read the statement.
However, the actor has now decided to work with the Jolly LLB fame director.
