MUMBAI: After Payal Ghosh’s slapping of #MeToo allegations against filmmaker Anurag Kashyap for alleged sexual harassment, actors like Taapsee Pannu, Nimrat Kaur, and others have come out in the support of Anurag. 

On the other hand, Richa Chadha, Huma Qureshi, and many others have lashed out at Payal for dragging their names in the #MeToo allegations. 

In an interview, Payal talked about the incident and shared that Anurag allegedly took her to a room and opened his zip and tried to force himself on her by opening her salwar kameez. Payal also claimed that Kashyap was apparently okay with her denial while mentioning that other actresses he has worked with including Huma Qureshi, Richa Chadha, and Mahi Gil, were just a call away for him.

Later, Richa Chadha took to social media to dismiss Payal’s claims against Kashyap. She also issued a statement saying that; “I condemn the act of my name being unnecessarily and falsely dragged in a derogatory manner into controversies and allegations being recently raised by third parties." 

She had also sent a soft copy of the notice to Payal, which was rejected by the latter. Payal finally accepted a copy of Richa’s legal notice; Richa posted a screenshot of the delivery receipt on Twitter and wrote; “Update: The legal notice has been delivered to Ms. Ghosh.” 

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Now, Richa responded to a troll bashing her for supporting Anurag Kashyap. She categorically stated that she would have taken Anurag Kashyap to court had he misbehaved with her. 

While Richa was being trolled for ignoring the truth and supporting Anurag just because he was powerful, she responded to a comment on her Instagram post by writing, “Anurag ne bakwas ki hoti to use legal notice ki jagah court le jati. Apni ideology apne paas rakho mai darne walon mein se nahi hoon. Ladki ne badnam karne ki koshish ki hai…. We will take legal recourse and see this to logical conclusion. Aur yaha zyada sher bano tumhara har msg mere case ko aur mazboot banata hai….it’s evident.” 

After the actress’ fan posted the screenshot on Twitter, Richa shared the same on Twitter as well. Later, Mahie and Huma also responded to Payal’s claims. 

Huma, who is currently shooting in Scotland for Bell Bottom, issued a statement on social media and said, “In my personal experience and to my knowledge he has neither misbehaved with me or anyone else. However, anyone who claims to be abused must report it to the authorities, the police and the judiciary.”

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