Filmmaker-actor Rajat Kapoor accused of sexual misconduct by 2 females, problems apology on TwitterEditors note: Following Rituparna Chatterjees report– Is Indias #MeToo moment here? Star and filmmaker Rajat Kapoor has been implicated of acting inappropriately with 3 women on three separate accounts.”She also tweeted about the incident: are we lastly #metoo-ing Bollywood bc like I provided my business card out to a director thinking I was making a professional connection and then got called 17 times the next day and then challenged irl and cursed out for not addressing the married creeps calls coughrajatkapoorcoughIn light of these claims, Kapoor provided an apology on Twitter late night on 7 October.

Filmmaker-actor Rajat Kapoor implicated of sexual misconduct by two females, concerns apology on TwitterEditors note: Following Rituparna Chatterjees report– Is Indias #MeToo moment here? Females are upset and they are calling and shaming their abusers — Firstpost will publish a series of articles collating individual accounts of those who have made allegations of harassment, in addition to actions from those who have been implicated of such behaviour. This is an ongoing exercise and will be upgraded to show brand-new advancements. If you wish to draw our attention to circumstances of harassment you might have experienced or experienced, tweet to us @firstpost with the hashtag #MeToo. Star and filmmaker Rajat Kapoor has been implicated of acting wrongly with 3 ladies on three different accounts. Journalist Sandhya Menon, who has been at the forefront of what is being called Indias #MeToo movement, published screenshots of the messages she had received from 2 women.One of them is Katherine Filaseta, a US-based actor-filmmaker who has implicated Kapoor of pestering her by calling her incessantly after the two spoke and satisfied briefly throughout an expert meeting.Rajat Kapoor/Image from Twitter.Katherina exposed in a declaration to Firstpost, “The night previously, after I had already given my contact info to him, we both were drinking, and he kept coming up to me and touching me inappropriately. I kept pulling away and going to individuals I knew I trusted already, or pressing his hand away, and it kept occurring. Over the next 24 hour duration beginning the next morning, he called me throughout the day from an unidentified number (which i never response), and I discovered it was him since he by force pulled me away from my task at the celebration we were at that night to curse me out for not addressing his calls.I was young. This was in 2013 in NYC and I was 22 or 23 years old. He was twice my age, that made things more uncomfortable and made his anger more threatening. I was young and naive and attempting to be a starlet at the time, so I felt put in a really uncomfortable position of not wanting to lose this professional connection but likewise not wanting any of what was happening to happen, so felt pressured to be courteous although I felt I wanted to inform him to f * ck off.I would be lying if I said this experience didnt have an effect on my choice to stop pursuing acting. I still operate in film, but the factor I stopped pursuing acting was since I felt that I didnt have it in me to be courteous and complicit when males treated me that way, which as a starlet, directors would treat me that method all the time, so I began pursuing other tracks of movie practically instantly after this understanding that I could not be courteous in scenarios like that anymore.”She likewise tweeted about the occurrence: are we lastly #metoo-ing Bollywood bc like I gave my service card out to a director thinking I was making a professional connection and after that got called 17 times the next day and after that faced irl and cursed out for not addressing the married creeps calls coughrajatkapoorcoughIn light of these allegations, Kapoor provided an apology on Twitter late night on 7 October. I am sorry from the bottom of my heart- and sad that I was the reason for this hurt to another human. It is to be a good human being if there is one thing more important to me than even my work. And I have attempted to be that person. And now, I will try harder.– Rajat Kapoor (@mrrajatkapoor) October 7, 2018This content was initially published here.