Rajat Kapoor's Name Comes Up In The Me Too Movement, Actor Apologizes On Social Media!
Updated : October 08, 2018 02:25 PM IST
As the #MeToo movement gains momentum in India and is reaching the Indian newsrooms, more and more women have opened up about their ordeal. And in some of the cases, many names of those in the Hindi film industry has also come up. The most recent one to join this list of predators in Rajat Kapoor.
There have been 3 individuals who have come up with their stories and ordeal that was meted out to them by actor and filmmaker Rajat Kapoor. While one of them had called out Rajat for his inappropriate behaviour during a telephonic interview, the other woman has accused Kapoor of calling her incessantly to an empty house!
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >I don't even know any more.
— Sandhya Menon (@TheRestlessQuil) October 7, 2018
Filmmaker Rajat Kapoor
Two separate and different accounts pic.twitter.com/nBjNOsun3j
Another US based model has accused him of calling her 17 times after she had passed him her number because he is a noted actor and filmmaker.
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >are we finally #metoo-ing Bollywood bc like I gave my business card out to a director thinking I was making a professional connection and then got called 17 times the next day and then confronted irl and cursed out for not answering the married creep’s calls coughrajatkapoorcough
— katherine (@kay_fil) October 7, 2018
More Twitter users opened up and said that he has been a serial offender.
undefined src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" >Definitely Rajat Kapoor , my friends wife who is an Air hostess , told me me how he is hits on every crew member. Pls feel free to tag any airline crew member, his stories will stumble out. He is definitely a wolf in sheep's clothing. I ain't lying.
— Antonio (@Antonio__Singh) October 7, 2018
Rajat Kapoor had opened up about the accusations and apologized on Twitter for his misconduct:
All my life I have tried to be a decent man, to do the right thing.
— Rajat Kapoor (@mrrajatkapoor) October 7, 2018
If however, I have slipped and through my actions or words
caused pain or hurt or trauma to absolutely anybody, please accept my
apology.