New Delhi: Actress Swastika Mukherjee, who is a well-liked title in Bengali films and was not too long ago seen within the film ‘Qala’ has accused a movie producer named Sandeep Sarkar of threatening her. She alleged that she acquired threatening emails from Sandeep and his associates. He is the co-producer of her upcoming Bengali movie ‘Shibpur’.
SWASTIKA MUKHERJEE ACCUSES FILM PRODUCER
Swastika advised OTT play, “It all began fairly randomly. During the complete course of taking pictures and dubbing, I’ve by no means been launched to Sandeep Sarkar. It was one other co-producer Ajanta Sinha Roy who communicated with us. Suddenly, Sandeep Sarkar began sending me threatening emails. He claimed that he was an American citizen and that if I didn’t ‘cooperate’ with them he would get in contact with the US Consulate in order that I by no means get a US visa. He additionally threatened to pull me to the Police Commissioner, Chief Minister, and so forth. Now I’ve completely no concept what this ‘cooperation’ means. I shot the movie and dubbed it and I by no means meant to not take part in promotional actions. Initially, the movie was scheduled to launch in March. I emailed my accessible dates to them. There was no response. Later, they shifted the discharge. And but they didn’t trouble to let me know. I obtained to realize it from our director and once more mailed him my accessible dates. By then he was presupposed to helm the promotional actions. Now, what are they even speaking about? There have been no advertising and marketing or PR plans that I acquired. In truth, once they launched the poster, I shared it on my social media additionally.”
‘HE MORPHED BY PICS’
According to IANS, Swastika claimed that she was allegedly knowledgeable that her photos have been morphed and these pictures shall be shared on pornography web sites. The actress has filed a criticism almost about sexual harassment at Golf Green Police Station in Kolkata.
Swastika’s supervisor additionally reportedly obtained a threatening e mail from somebody referred to as Ravish Sharma, who claimed to be Sandeep Sarkar’s good friend. The actress mentioned, “He (Ravish Sharma) further claimed that he was a ‘brilliant’ computer hacker. He said that he would ‘morph’ my pictures and send them to pornography websites. Along with the email, he sent two of my images that are morphed and nude. This amounted to sexual harassment. Sandeep Sarkar admitted that they are acquaintances.”
She additionally reached out to the Eastern India Motion Pictures Association, together with scanned copies of those risk emails. While clarifying the character of her affiliation with the producer, the actor talked about that she had by no means met the producer whereas taking pictures for ‘Shibpur’.
As per media studies, whereas the co-producer’s authorized consultant has denied his involvement in any such act they’ve additionally mentioned that the actress took the step after she was instigated by the director of the movie, Arindam Bhattacharya.
‘Shibpur’ is slated to launch in cinemas on May 5, 2023. It additionally options Parambrata Chatterjee, Rajatava Dutta, Mamata Shankar, Kharaj Mukhopadhyay, Susmita Mukherjee amongst others.
