Actress Tanushree Dutta claims Nana Patekar 'misbehaved' with her

The Indian actress said Nana's reputation of sexual misconduct is well known in the Hindi film industry.

"Everyone knows about Nana Patekar that he has always been disrespectful towards women. People in the industry know about this and that he has beaten actresses, he has molested them, his behaviour with women has always been crude but no publication has printed anything about it," the actress told Zoom.

Dutta said the incident of misbehavior occurred during the shooting of a Bollywood movie in 2008.

The actress said she was supposed to perform a special dance number for in the movie.

The actress told News 18 that Patekar made her uncomfortable to the extent that she eventually had to opt out of doing the song. 

“These people called goons on me on the set of Horn 'Ok' Pleassss. They broke my car. They were called by Nana Patekar because that time he was trying to get into politics and he was associated with the MNS party. So, there was guilt written all over their faces. Even the choreographer Ganesh Acharya, the producer and director, all these people ganged up against me,” she told News18. 

Bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya  responded to her claims and told the news channel: " First of all, it’s a very old incident so I can’t really recall everything very clearly. But it was a duet song as far as I remember. Something did happen that day because the shooting was also stalled for over three hours. There was some sort of misunderstanding. But I can confirm that nothing this sort of happened. It’s a wrong statement that Nana ji called members of some political party on set. It never happened.”