Recently, the news flashed that Bollywood's top director has
been accused of a molestation case from the woman working under his production
banner. Well, we are speaking about Queen's director Vikas Bahl.
As per the report in a famous daily, one of Phantom’s female
employee has complained to the Human Resources team about sexual misbehavior on
the part of Bahl on a visit to Goa a couple of months before.
But, one of co-owners of Phanton Films, Madhu Mantena has repudiated
all such allegations. Speaking about the whole case, Vikas opened up on his
side and said the daily, "Nothing has happened. I am running the company.
There is no complaint to HR and there is no Vishakha committee. I have heard
about this particular lady you are speaking about and the Goa incident. She is
not my employee."
He admitted being friends with her but fails to agree as to
when he made her uncomfortable. He further added, "Yes, I am friends with
her, we have worked together and there is a production job we have done
together...but if she is feeling like this I would like to sit across a table
from her and talk to her."
He continued, "I want to ask her if I have crossed a
line, whether I have done anything to hurt her and if she feels that way I
would like to apologise for it. I have known her for long. For two-and-a-half
years she has never made me feel as if she is uncomfortable (around me). I have
worked very hard to be the person I have become. I do feel a little victimized
but I don’t know what to do about that."
One of the stakeholders, on the condition of secrecy, gave a
different side of the story. “There are not one, two or three but multiple
victims. I was in the middle of a film shoot when I came to know about the
first incident and I had to stop my shoot and come to Mumbai… there is (after
all) a young girl on whom an intoxicated Vikas forced himself while they were
in Goa. He has behaved badly in the past as well but when this specific
complaint came, we needed to act on it," added the stakeholder.
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