Tanushree Dutta, in the news recently for her row with Nana Patekar is afraid to admit that she is afraid. “I’m afraid that I’m afraid,” the actress says. “That’s why I’ve been talking against Nana Patekar and Rakhi Sawant long after she took over the item song from me with him. I feel upset and frightened. The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers were put on the job to harass me after I dared to take on Nana (Nana Patekar) for his behaviour.”
Tanushree also agrees to the other argument of keeping quiet against a senior Bollywood artiste. “Maybe I should’ve stopped talking about it. But I did so only out of fear. I’m a girl from Bihar. I’m seen as an outsider in Mumbai, and I was reminded about it by a very senior member of the film industry recently. When I told him I felt threatened he turned around to ask, ‘who do you think you are, Amitabh Bachchan?’ But this is not about being big or small. It’s about my basic right to work with dignity in the industry. Why are people from within the industry trying to rob me of that right? When I recent attended a CINTA meeting, I felt they were talking Greek.”
It is then that Tanushree decided to get herself 24-hour protection. “It’s sad that I feel the need to be guarded against my own colleagues in the film industry. But I no longer feel safe here even within the studio. I had done item songs before. But never had I been treated the way I was during the one for Horn OK Please.”
