#MeToo: 11 Bollywood directors vow not to work with sex offenders

MUMBAI: Sunday brought a decisive move in India’s #MeToo movement in the entertainment industry. Eleven prominent women filmmakers issued a joint statement announcing they would never work with any proven sexual offender.
The signatories include Zoya Akhtar, Nandita Das, Konkona Sen Sharma, Meghna Gulzar, Gauri Shinde, Kiran Rao, Reema Kagti, Alankrita Shrivastava, Nitya Mehra, Ruchi Narain and Shonali Bose. “As women and filmmakers, we come together to support the #MeToolndia movement.We are in complete solidarity with the women who have come forward with honest accounts of harassment and assault. Our respect and admiration to them as their courage has started a revolution of welcome change,” the statement read.
Actor accuses TRS MLA of sexual harassment: Tollywood actress Sri Reddy, who once stripped to protest against casting couch in Telugu film industry, hurled a political bomb on Sunday by accusing an influential Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MLA of sexual harassment.
In a Facebook post, Sri Reddy accused legislator Ashannagari Jeevan Reddy of harassing her and other actresses at a luxury hotel in tony Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad. tnn