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Published: Oct 14,2018
The Pyaar Ka Punchnama filmmaker, Luv Ranjan, had recently been outed as a sexual predator in the ongoing #MeToo movement. Reacting to this, his Sonu Ki Titu Ki Sweety actor Nushrat Bharucha took to social media to defend Luv Ranjan. Bharucha has acted in four of Ranjan's films which is why she feels like she has authority over the matter. One of the statements in her lengthy posts reads, "I was the first girl cast in Pyaar Ka Punchnama and I have been an actress in all of his films ever since. So, one can view this in two ways: either I am too close to see things objectively, or, I am one of the few people who, without a doubt, can tell you who this man really is." Have a look at the full statement here:
Another actor, Sonnalli Seygall, also posted on social media as to how Luv Ranjan is 'one of the nicest' men out there. Here's her full statement.
"It's after long that such a relevant n important movement has finally started n it would be really sad n unfortunate if we deviate from our agenda here. The #MeToo movement is to bring forth the people "guilty of sexual harassment and not to shoot in the dark aimlessly. If we start believing every name thrown in the media today for whatever personal agenda or whatever u wanna call it, we are really digressing from the topic, and even risk trivialising this issue! Let's also b sensible, sensitive, intelligent human beings and use out common sense to see what's real and what's not, otherwise the true criminals WILL get away and nothing will be solved. N let's pls hold ourselves responsible for what we choose to believe and what not. Luv Ranjan is a man I have now known n worked with for almost 8 years and the allegations against him by this one "anonymous person is the most absurd thing I have heard about him! I honestly don't know what to say to that..but I can vouch for the fact that he's one of nicest gentleman with a protective guardian like quality who has always made me, and as far as I know all the women on out set including the female actors, ADs, and crew, feel very safe.On the contrary there have been multiple cases where he has protected us from disgusting men. One such case was when we were shooting in Chandni Chowk in Delhi during PKP 2 and suddenly we couldn't find Luv sir, only to find out that he went to hit a guy who had tried to brush past n touch one of us girls on the road. There was another time during the shoot of Chak Glassi' in PKP 1 where he fought with and threw the media out of the set because some of them were clicking out pictures inappropriately without us knowing. There have been multiple incidents like this which just go on to say that he's in fact the man contrary to the baseless allegations made recently. So I really wanna take this opportunity to stand by #MeToo and safeguard the movement's true interest. But let's take some responsibility upon ourselves and not blindly believe everything that we hear. Let's be intelligent and wise.
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