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Actor-model Sherlyn Chopra has levelled allegations of sexual harassment against Bollywood filmmaker Sajid Khan. Yesterday, a video clip featuring late actor Jiah Khan's sister Karishma from BBC's documentary Death In Bollywood began doing rounds on social media, in which she accused the director of sexually harassing her sister. Sharing her experience from the year 2005 when the two had met, Chopra wrote on Twitter that Sajid had "taken his penis out of his pants and had asked me to feel it." The incident occurred a few days after her father’s death, recounted Chopra, adding she told him that "the purpose of my meeting with him was not to feel or rate his penis."
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Chopra tweeted about the incident alongside a report on allegations made by Jiah Khan’s sister against Sajid Khan. Karishma's allegations surfaced in a clip from part two of the three-part documentary on Jiah Khan’s death that is currently being aired by the BBC. Jiah Khan died by suicide in 2013. In the clip, Karishma narrated how the filmmaker harassed the actor, saying, "he asked her to take off her top."
In follow up tweets Chopra alleged that Khan is backed by "superstars" of Bollywood who will vouch for his character. "It’s my word against theirs."
Multiple women accused Sajid Khan of sexual harassment
Last year, a model named Paula too had accused director Sajid Khan of sexual misconduct. She took to her Instagram account and penned a note alleging that Khan asked her to strip, to get a role in his film Housefull.
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Paula revealed that she was just 17 years old at that time. She wrote, “When #MeToo movement started, a lot of people spoke about Sajid Khan but I did not dare to because like every other actor who has no godfather and had to earn for a family I kept quiet. Now I don’t have my parents with me. I’m earning for myself. I can dare to tell that I have been harassed by Sajid Khan at the age of 17.” You can read more on Paula's allegations here.
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Back in 2018, the Housefull film series director was accused by several women of sexual misconduct. Three women, including actors Saloni Chopra, Rachel White and journalist Karishma Upadhyay, called out the director and accused him of misconduct with female colleagues on various film sets.
Subsequently, Sajid Khan was replaced by Farhad Samji as the director of Housefull 4.
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