Tanushree Dutta and Nana Patekar

Former Miss India Tanushree Dutta broke many hearts when she decided to leave films and eventually the country to move to the US. The actress is back in the bay now and recently made a shocking revelation. Tanushree claimed that she was assaulted by veteran actor Nana Patekar. The actress said that during the filming of her 2008 film Horn Ok Please, she was not just pushed but also intimidated by Nana Patekar on the sets.

In an exclusive interview with Zoom TV, Tanushree said that Nana Patekar has as a history of assaulting women. She said that people in the industry know that the actor is rude to women and has beaten them on the sets. She said, "Everyone knows about Nana Patekar that he has always been disrespectful towards women. People in the industry know about this and that he has beaten actresses, he has molested them, his behaviour with women has always been crude but no publication has printed anything about it.

She further said, "Everyone has gossiped about this but have never spoken. People with this kind of character speak like this against the kind of character that I have because they say she does glamourous roles so must be glamorous and all. Behind the back, they are so dirty. When you are in the industry you hear so many stories about these actors. But these things never take surface because they are PR packaged very well. They will give some money to some poor farmers. How much they do and how much they don't no one knows. But all this is just for show."

She said that top lead actresses in films are only cast by the lead actors and not the casting directors. They will cast all the other actors in the movie but the lead actress will be recommended by the lead actor, she said. In fact, she said that Akshay Kumar and Rajinikanth also work with Nana Patekar. (Also Read: Tanushree Dutta opens up about being sexually assaulted, says the incident took away her belief from humanity)

Reminiscing about a memory on the casting couch, she talked about how a friend overheard an actor talking to a casting director about choosing the female lead in a film. But instead of asking what was her last film or does she know how to act, he asked, "Deti hai kya." She further said about the director saying 'Aagar deti nhi hai to isko milegi nhi.'

She said, "The attitude in Bollywood and all the film industries that are working in the country is this - dete nhi ho toh film nhi milegi."