Kangana's 'Queen' co-star Nayani Dixit accuses Vikas Bahl of sexual misconduct

October 08, 2018 22:30

After Kangana Ranaut, actress Nayani Dixit, who co-starred with Kangana in Queen, recently opened up about her alleged unpleasant experience of working with director Vikas Bahl for the 2014 film in an interview with Bollywood Hungama.

Speaking to the publication, Dixit, who played the role of Kangana's friend Sonal in Queen, alleged that the filmmaker made unwelcome advances at her.

Nayani Dixit's interview arrives just three days after Phantom Films was dissolved duo to the sexual misconduct charges against co-owner Vikas Bahl.

The filmmaker has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2015. "Whatever the girl has accused Vikas Bahl is not at all wrong because he also tried his hand on me. I literally told him that 'main tumhe maarungi if you do this again'. So I am sure he did the same with the girl in question as well," Bollywood Hungama quoted Nayani as saying.

Nayani Dixit alleged that Bahl was unnecessarily rude with her the following day at work: "Next day, when I came on the sets, something went wrong with my hair. I didn't get it as it's not my area of concern. But Vikas blasted me and he behaved very weird with me. Now when I look back, I realised that why this behaviour. Since he did not get a chance on me, he was taking revenge."

In her interview, Dixit also claimed that the filmmaker even offered her to share his room when Queen was being filmed in Delhi: "They kept us in a 2-star hotel. When I said that I am not comfortable, Vikas told me that he can share his room with me. Look at his audacity!"

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