Thread by @MeenaDasNarayan

and how she was foolish in thinking that casting couch was about one-time sex and that it would end after that and how he wanted her to be a director’s assistant and not an assistant director. #sajjidKhan

Rachel, t second woman, also spoken at length abt her trauma in a series of tweets. She explained tt during t making of Humshakals, Sajid asked her to come to his home, stared at her breasts & asked her to strip on the pretext tt her role in t film required her to b in a bikini

She wrote: “I was in a white vest and blue denims and still felt I was standing nude with that gaze. What happens next is that he finishes his cardio and walks up to me asking me about my b**bs and making that kind of conversation. I didn’t bother to answer to anything.”

When she said that her bikini shots were a part of her portfolio, he continued to insist. That’s when she said that she was ready to do so at his office, but not his home, to which he replied that people are okay about it, implying that she mustn’t resist

After tt he asks me to strip for him bcoz thr were scenes in a bikini and he needed to see how I looked.I replied saying “there are pics of me in bikinis sent to u,I think that should be good for u” n wen he insisted I said“I’m ready to parade in ur office in a bikini nt at home.

A journalist, Karishma Upadhyay, on Twitter too narrated her tale of harassment by Sajid, who flashed his private parts at her during the course of an interview. Speaking about it, she wrote:

“The first time I interviewed Sajid Khan in the early 2000s, he called me to the house he shared with his sister. Thru the interview among other obscene things which is too vulgar to narrate .. he told her he knew how to satisfy a woman.”