A week before, Bengali television actress Sulagna Chatterjee outed casting couch as a sad reality in Bollywood, pasting a screenshot of her chat with an agent. While speaking about an upcoming project, the latter asking for a "compromise" on behalf of the director.
"When such offers are so common that you are not even affected anymore," the actress wrote on Instagram.
The #MeToo campaign against sexual harassment and assault, started by Hollywood actor Alyssa Milano, had found support in Bollywood actors like Konkana Sen Sharma and Radhika Apte.
Since the movement kicked off, after mass sexual assault charges cropped up against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein, several women had started to speak about their experiences on social media using #MeToo.
"What is nice about it is if it makes people understand the magnitude of the problem it's good, if it helps other people to speak up about it then that's wonderful. There are nice things that you can achieve from this as well. It shows solidarity. But we have to think about deeper ways about how to solve the problem," Konkana told reporters on the sidelines of the Jio MAMI festival in Mumbai.
Radhika, who was also present at the event, supported it, saying, "I haven't done it (written on social media about #MeToo) but I read about it. I do support it. It is not disturbing, it is great that women are coming out."
Kangana Ranuat too extended her support to #MeToo campaign.
(Inputs from PTI)
