Choreographer Ganesh Acharya responded to the allegations of harassment made by Tanushree Dutta against Nana Patekar on Wednesday.
Earlier, the actress had accused Nana Patekar of misbehaving with her on the sets of 2008 film titled Horn Ok Pleassss. Dutta was reportedly doing a dance number for the film. Acharya was the choreographer for the movie directed by Rakesh Sarang. Dutta alleged that Patekar wanted to do an intimate scene with her in the song and when she refused he allegedly called members of a political party to intimidate her.
Dutta had also alleged that Acharya, the director, and the producer of the movie Samee Siddique witnessed everything happen yet did nothing about it.
Acharya told News18, "First of all, it’s a very old incident so I can’t really recall everything very clearly. But it was a duet song as far as I remember. Something did happen that day because the shooting was also stalled for over three hours. There was some sort of misunderstanding. But I can confirm that nothing this sort of happened. It’s a wrong statement that Nana ji called members of some political party on set. It never happened."
The choreographer also said that he was told by the producers that Nana Patekar will be part of the song. "When I was called for rehearsal I was told that Nana ji was also there in the song. I don’t have the agreement with me because that time we used to do it verbally. But that particular song didn’t involve any kind of indecent step in the first place. It was pure dancing. That’s all," he told the news site.
Dutta walked out of the song and Rakhi Sawant was called in as the replacement. Acharya said that he had nothing to do with the replacement and it was all producers' call.
Acharya also said that Patekar is a sweet person and can never do what Dutta is claiming. The choreographer also claimed that Patekar has helped a lot of artists in the industry and can never do anything like that.
