Actor Tanushree Dutta feels a Hema Committee kind of report is imperative in Bollywood
“I feel a similar report on Bollywood would be very useful and urgently needed. The beginning of solutions is the knowledge of the issue so yes this kind of report does have its value. I thought it was like the Vishaka committee guidelines and there was so much talk on it but nothing much happened later.But I still maintain that we need perpetrators to fear the law , we women are living in fear. I’m due to go on a solo travel soon and I spent a bunch of money in just buying self defence and surveillance items.”
Tanushree feels her life is in danger. “I have been followed by people and untoward incidents have happened frequently after #MeToo in 2018. I’ve been travelling for spiritual sadhana since 2010. But it was only after 2018 MeToo, and specifically dangerously from Jan 2020 onwards that this covert attempts to assassinate me and hurt me in some way started. I tried to ignore everything until it became too obvious to me.My experiences in the last few years has left me unable to trust anyone or anything. It’s very sad considering I have always been a person who easily trusted people, situations and things. I was never this concerned for my safety but when untoward and odd things keep happening then any person will always respond to everything with a hint of caution. These horrible people from the don’t just trouble you, they don’t just spread lies and rumours to destroy your future prospects, but they also are hateful, vengeful, and egoistic, psychopathic and criminally minded. They want to break you by employing the worst strategies ever. Imagine sending men after a single young woman half their age for complaining about their misconduct.In 2008 Nana Patekar called a violent political outfit to the Horn OK set. They came and mob attacked my van and car while me and my family were in it. And after 2018 Nana ganged up with other bad men of Bollywood to target me by getting me followed by goons. It has been a very challenging time for me and extremely distressing, to say the least.
Tanushree suspects she is being poisoned . “I can’t even eat freely by ordering room service.A few times in the last few years, including at my home some staff member was planted and bribed to mix some stuff in my food to try to hurt me in some way. I’ve had sudden health scares and freak road accidents, multiple food poisoning events and even stroke like symptoms a few times just after eating food. Once I ate something somewhere and within a few hours I noticed that my feet had turned blue and swelled up all of sudden like elephant feet. There’s lots more, like three years multiple horrors and mind games.I was at a pilgrimage to a remote village in Rajasthan. I had gone for sadhana at a very powerful and jagrut Hanuman temple for a very specific purpose The location of this village is a two-hour drive from Jaipur and the road is very deserted at times.To get there I had booked a cab from Jaipur Airport so I got to my hotel safely but for the return flight I booked a cab from one of the online vendors as I got a good rate. So I had the payment receipt, the name of driver and cab number details etc. The hotel staff took good care of me and it was a pleasant stay at my favourite hotel.”
At this point Tanushree’s pilgrimage turned bizarre. “ All went well and I was ready to check out for my return flight.A cab arrived early morning and called me on my cell.He was not the driver who was supposed to come. The car was also different, nothing matched the booking details I had from the vendor. Some random guy had come who claimed to be the brother of cab guy who was supposed to come. The original cab guy was not taking my calls to verify. I felt something fishy and asked him to name his brother and he didn’t know! He just knew my name, my pickup location and time and that I was going to the airport. He had no booking documents of any kind. I called the customer service of the online vendor immediately and they had no clue of this switch and the original cab guy was not taking their calls even. So nobody had any clue who this guy was, he refused to give his ID card and kept insisting that I board his cab for that that hour long isolated journey through the dessert like terrain.I asked the hotel staff what to do and they suggested I don’t go with him as they felt all this to be very odd too. I missed my flight that day and booked another one later and the hotel sent their car and a trusted guy to drive me to the airport. Till date the vendor doesn’t know who had showed up and everything that guy had said about being the original cab guys brother and excuses turned out to be all lies. Even the transport company that the vendor had sub contracted for the vehicle didn’t know who he was or why an unregistered random vehicle showed up for his vehicle’s vendor booking. Someone told me that number plate was also missing on this car in front or some issue with the number plate I don’t remember. But everything felt like a massive red flag on my face!Now the most interesting thing here was that prior to this incident, all throughout my stay and everyday visits to the temple which was just a few blocks away from the hotel, I had observed some local goon type of men following me around and taking video recordings of me coming and going. They would know when I’m leaving the hotel and when I’m returning. It was freaky but I kept my cool. In fact they even tried to create some issues for me inside the temple and I almost reached the cop station nearby to complain but decided to not waste my limited time there on all this. I thought it was best to ignore stuff and finish my sadhana. Then on the day I was to return this weird thing I told you about, happened. This kind of really weird stuff kept happening from January 2020 onwards, right after I did a press con and questioned Nana Patekar’s NGO. Some incidents were more scary than others.”
Tanushree felt unsafe in India and shifted to the US. “I was in the US for two months earlier this year. Once I was taking a walk just around my hotels area in Edison New Jersey and suddenly a car came out of nowhere and tried to run me over on the sidewalk. There were no security cameras in that area, so I stopped going there. A bunch of weird stuff happened in US too during this trip and my last trip in 2021. I had discussed with an old associate in 2022 and she said the underworld guys operate like this as she faced similar things in a divorce case involving her family. I’ve been in very dangerous and tricky situations last few years.”