Over the past week, controversy’s favorite child – Rakhi Sawant, found a new subject to bring herself to some sort of relevance again.
The former reality TV participant responded to Tanushree’s lawsuit against her, which the actress had filed following Sawant’s accusations calling her a liar and a drug addict, by organizing yet another press conference – taking things to a whole new level of — ‘Bizarre.’
Pulling a saari-clad “act”, Sawant appeared before the media earlier this week – “alleging” Tanushree of being a lesbian and raping her in the past.
If that wasn’t enough, she mocked the sensitive subject of sexual crimes against women, by uploading a disgraceful video on her Instagram account, with a locked-up heavy chain tied around her private parts, insisting her followers that it was how women could keep themselves safe now.
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Tanushree, who’s being regarded as someone who has kickstarted the MeToo campaign in India – after her allegations against Nana Patekar, has responded to Rakhi’s jarring attempts at being in the spotlight again, by not only rubbishing her ‘claims’, but also telling her to not turn a sensitive subject like sexual harassment into a joke.
In an interview with Republic TV, she was quoted saying:
“For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the record straight: I’m not a drug addict, I don’t smoke or drink and I am most definitely not a Lesbian.”
Tanushree further added:
“In fact, I’m too much of a woman for this patriarchal and misogynistic cesspool to handle. Hence the perverted character assasination attempts to shut me up!! It’s clearly not working. Let’s not make a jokery of such a serious movement that can potentially bring positive changes of mindset in our society.”
Although, the ‘too much of a woman’ remark in contrast to her ‘not being a lesbian’ may sound homo-ignorant, we’ll give Tanushree the benefit of the doubt.
Let us take the movement back to where it was and keep the mudslinging and mockery out of it.