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29 March 2024

Geetika Tyagi and the Bollywood casting couch

Journalist turned actor Geetika Tyagi files charge sheet against director Subhash Kapoor for allegedly molesting her. (SANSKRITI MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT)

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The Mumbai Police are in the process of filing a chargesheet against director Subhash Kapoor for allegedly molesting starlet Geetika Tyagi.

Tyagi, a former journalist turned actress, created a furore two good years after she was allegedly molested by the filmmaker and an accomplice.

Tyagi, who is also rumoured to be seeing filmmaker Atul Sabharwal of ‘Aurangazeb’ fame, had initially filmed Kapoor in a video accepting his fault at the end of which she had also slapped him in the presence of his wife Dimple.

The video went viral also, creating a rumour about a possible casting couch phenomenon, a charge denied by both parties.

Screen grab of Geetika slapping Subhash Kapoor

Kapoo,r who had won a national award for his film ‘Jolly LLB’, will be strangely finding himself in court soon after being arrested by the Mumbai police and released on bail later.

Both parties are maintaining a stoic silence on the issue.

Geetika, however, has been venting her emotions on the social media by posting online stories about Kapoor’s arrest on her social media profile.

Ever since the news of Geetika’s protest against Kapoor’s demeanour was made public, a few stories about her ‘murky’ past too have surfaced including an ATM theft charge by her colleague and now politician Shazia Ilmi.

Bollywood strangely has kept away from commenting much on this issue as they did in the Preity Zinta case.