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Writer Kanika Dhillon's Shocking Revelation: I was Harassed and Propositioned!

Kanika Dhillon has carved a space for herself with critically acclaimed films such as Manmarziyaan, Judgementall Hai Kya and more recently, Netflix’s Guilty...

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Kanika Dhillon made some of the most shocking revelations that holds the entire Bollywood industry responsible for its inability to act against the injustice against women. The writer revealed that says that she was harassed and propositioned early in her career. The writer carved a space for herself with critically acclaimed films such as Manmarziyaan, Judgementall Hai Kya and more recently, Netflix’s Guilty. 

However, she claims that there were times when I wanted to leave this industry and go.

In an interaction with News18 Kanika talked about the inequality she faced in the industry when she was starting off.

Forget the paycheck, there were times when I started out that I wanted to leave this industry and go. I was harassed; I was propositioned; I was made to feel that the only way I’m good enough is to have a happy face around; I was made to feel that I’m being kept around because I was easy on the eyes.

Since I have been made to feel so unworthy because of my sex, I hit back harder, and today, I want to charge the maximum that I can. Today, I’m amongst the highest-paid writers in the industry because that’s where I wanted to be. And that is something I promised myself because I was made to feel victimized, harassed and not good enough.

- Kanika Dhillon

Kanika also talked about how men refuse to attribute a woman’s success to her talent. “Across the world and especially in India, men refuse to acknowledge that a woman is doing well in her life because of her talent. Somehow the first thing that they’ll say is, ‘Oh, has she slept her way up?’ I feel that the men who gossip like this, they actually do it in real life. They think that sleeping their way up is a great way to do it, hence you are projecting it on other people’s success and validating the other person’s position,” she said. 

“So next time when you hear a man of this industry, cracking a joke that ‘I think this woman is sleeping her way up,’ immediately know that this man is a predator. And, this judgment is something that women face across the world. Men judge them more because they get very insecure and scared,” she added.

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