Actor Mouni Roy on Saturday shared a lengthy note on social media and alleged she was harassed by elderly men during a recent event in Haryana, an incident which left her humiliated and traumatised.<\/p>\n
Roy, known for featuring in drama series \u201cNaagin\u201d and also for her roles in films such as \u201cGold\u201d and \u201cMade in China\u201d, explained about the incident with a series of Instagram stories.<\/p>\n
The actor said she was performing in Karnal, Haryana, and she was \u201cdisgusted\u201d with the behaviour of some men, who tried to touch her at the pretext of clicking pictures with her. She claimed they placed their hands on her waist and didn\u2019t like it when the actor asked them not to do so.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad an event in Karnal last and I\u2019m disgusted with the behaviour of the guests specially two uncles who are well aged to be grandparents. As the event started and I walked towards the stage, uncles and family members (all men) put their hands on my waist to click pictures…Didn\u2019t like it when I said \u2018sir plz remove your hand,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Roy said the situation worsened when she got on stage as some elderly men tried to capture her video from a low angle and also made gestures. The actor said she even went till the exit, but decided to continue her performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn stage is even a better story. Two uncles stood right in front, making lewd remarks showing me lewd hand gestures, name-calling. I realised that and first politely gestured to them don\u2019t do it to which they started throwing roses at me. Is when mid performance i walked towards the stage exit but immediately came back to finish my performance. They didn\u2019t stop even after that, and no family or organisers moved them from up front… Have to also mention that the stage was on a height and these uncles were making videos low angle. When someone asked them to stop, they abused em,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
She emphasised how artists try to earn an honest living with their craft and said the following incidents left her humiliated and traumatised. She also urged authorities to take action for such behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are artists trying to earn an honest living through our craft. Wonder what these men would do if their friends behaved the same with their daughters, sisters or any family members shame on you…I love my country, our people and our traditions, but this? The guts. The entitlement of being men. I never put up anything negative. I go through. But this. Have no words. I am traumatised, humiliated, and want the authorities to take action for this intolerable behaviour,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Mouni Roy on Saturday shared a lengthy note on social media and alleged she was harassed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,145188,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-249683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mouni-roy","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}