Writer-producer Vinta Nanda, best known for writing popular soap series of the 90s—Tara—has accused the most 'sanskari person in the film and television industry' of rape. In a Facebook post, she shares her harrowing experience 20 years ago, where the actor, who was the main male lead of Tara, brutally raped her while she was intoxicated.
Though she doesn't directly name the actor in her post, all clues point at actor Alok Nath. Vinta, later confirmed to news agencies, that the actor is Alok Nath. “I thought saying 'sanskari' would do the needful, she said.
“He was an alcoholic, shameless and obnoxious but he was also the television star of that decade, so not only was he forgiven for all his bad behaviour but many of the guys would egg him on to be his worst. My lead female actor was being harassed by him. He would mess with her on the sets and everyone would be silent. When she complained to us, we decided to let him go,” she wrote in the lengthy post.
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Recounting her 'worst' experience, she wrote that she left Alok Nath's home after a party at 2am, and that her drinks were mixed. “I started to walk home on the empty streets although the distance to my own house was long. Midway I was accosted by this man who was driving his own car and he asked me to sit in it and said he would drop me home. I trusted him and sat in his car. I have faint memory after that. I can remember more liquor being poured into my mouth and I remember being violated endlessly. When I woke up the next afternoon, I was in pain. I hadn’t just been raped, I was taken to my own house and had been brutalised,” she wrote.
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In the powerful post, she calls out to all who have suffered sexual harassment in their lives. “I have waited for this moment to come for 19 years. I shout out to each one of you who have suffered at the hands of predators to come out and say it aloud,” she wrote.
“Speak out. Shout out from the top of the roof."
