#MeToo: Filmmaker Nishtha Jain accuses journalist Vinod Dua of sexual harassment

The way new names are being added to the list of alleged offenders in the ongoing #MeToo movement in India looks like many more celebs are going to come under the scanner very soon. Now filmmaker Nishtha Jain has accused veteran journalist Vinod Dua of sexual and mental harassment. Vinod Dua is the father of popular comedian-actress Mallika Dua.

Sharing her #MeToo story, Nishtha Jain wrote in her post how Vinod first humiliated her during a job interview in 1989, and later cracked a creepy joke. Despite Nishtha joining some other firm, Dua used to stalk her and one day asked her to enter his car. Sharing her ordeal Nishtha wrote, “Assuming that he wanted to apologise for his behaviour, I entered the car but before I could even settle down he began slobbering all over my face. I managed to get out and get into my office car and leave. I spotted him again in the parking in the coming nights and would go right back and wait till someone was ready to leave along with me in the office car. After a few days he stopped stalking me. The man was Vinod Dua. When I read about his outrage against Akshay Kumar’s sexist words to his daughter Malika Dua, I said to myself he’s obviously forgotten that he was no less sexist, no less misogynist, no less creepy a sexual harasser, potential rapist. If he did to me, I’m sure he would have done it to other women. Today, he does programmes explaining the world what constitutes sexual harassment. He should stop everything and look into his own shady past.”

You can read her full post here:

For the uninitiated last year during the shooting of one of the episodes of  ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’, Akshay Kumar had said Mallika, “Mallika Ji aap bell bajao, Mai aapko bajata hoon”. This had enraged Vinod and he had lashed out at Akshay for his insensitive remark.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BS0rpMLFUq3/?hl=en&taken-by=mallikadua

And now that allegations against Vinod have surfaced we wonder what the father-daughter duo has to say about it.

Also Read: #MeToo: 11 women filmmakers of Bollywood urge peers not to work with proven offenders

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