Veteran actress Soni Razdan is the latest Bollywood celebrity to comment on the #MeToo movement sweeping the nation. Recalling an incident, Razdan said someone tried to rape her during shoot in her younger days. She, however, refused to name the person.
Speaking to The Quint, she said: “I have been lucky in the sense that, I haven't faced it when I had gone and approached somebody for work. But, I faced it in other directions. There was an incident that happened to me when I was on a film shoot and somebody tried to rape me. Luckily, he didn’t succeed.”
The veteran actress said that the only reason she chose to remain silent at that time was because it would have hurt that person's family. “He had a family and small children. At that time, I thought nothing really happened and I managed to control it.” She added that had the incident occurred now, she probably wouldn't have been so 'magnanimous'.
Razdan also backed the sexual assault allegations against actor Alok Nath. Razdan, who was 'horrified' to hear Vinta Nanda's account, said that it was a known fact that Alok Nath had a 'Jekyll and Hyde personality'. “I have seen Alok Nath behave badly when he is drunk. He was a very different person when he was not drunk. And that's the Alok I would personally like to remember,” she said.
Filmmaker Vinta, and actress Sandhya Mridul had spoken up against Alok Nath. Vinta Nanda, best known for writing popular soap series of the 90s—Tara—had accused the most 'sanskari person in the film and television industry' of rape. In a Facebook post recently, she shared her harrowing experience 20 years ago, where the actor, who was the main male lead of Tara, brutally raped her while she was intoxicated.
