Rajat Kapoor has been accused of behaving inappropriately with three women in different occasions. Indian Journalist Sandhya Menon who has been working relentlessly for #MeToo movement posted screenshots of women accusing the filmmaker of misconduct. One of the women is Katherine Filaseta, a US based actor-Filmmaker who accused Kapoor of harassing her by calling from unknown numbers and touching her inappropriately.
are we finally #metoo-ing Bollywood bc like I gave 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 confronted irl and cursed out for not answering the married creep’s calls coughrajatkapoorcough
— katherine (@kay_fil) October 7, 2018
Katherine met the filmmaker for a meeting after that they were having drinks together when he started making advances to her. Trying to avoid his physical contact by pushing his hands away or kept on going to her friends for shelter somehow the night passed. In the morning he started calling her from unknown number as her contact information was already with him before the meeting.
Menon further posted screenshots of more women coming forward and talking about their experiences.
This happened to me. I'm the anonymous person. I'm sorry I was afraid of putting my name to this but no longer. What happened to me was real. It was disgusting. #MeToo https://t.co/P74Y2RHAt6
— A (@Apoorvasripathi) October 8, 2018
Journalist Apoorva Sripathi went to interview Kapoor in his hotel room unfortunately her photographer bailed out on her so she was left along with him in a room. He started to get close to her but she kept on moving aside however the interview ended and he told her to skype with him later at night to which she laughed it off. However at the time of leaving he hugged her despite her denying the hug, it lasted longer than it should have and he started to feel her. She told him how he is like her grandfather in response he winked at her. Finally she pushed him and ran out of the room, left traumatised.
Another woman came forward and share her story with Menon:
More about Rajat Kapoor. pic.twitter.com/EkerCEuYBi
— Sandhya Menon (@TheRestlessQuil) October 9, 2018
Rajat Kapoor in response took over twitter to apologise to the victims:
All my life I have tried to be a decent man, to do the right thing.
If however, I have slipped and through my actions or words
caused pain or hurt or trauma to absolutely anybody, please accept my
apology.— Rajat Kapoor (@mrrajatkapoor) October 7, 2018
All my life I have tried to be a decent man, to do the right thing.
If however, I have slipped and through my actions or words
caused pain or hurt or trauma to absolutely anybody, please accept my
apology.— Rajat Kapoor (@mrrajatkapoor) October 7, 2018
