Dancer ‘molested’ on ‘Houseful 4’ sets while Akshay Kumar, Ritesh Deshmukh were shooting

A female dancer has claimed of being allegedly molested on the sets of ‘Houseful 4’ last night when the lead actors Akshay Kumar and Riteish Deshmukh were present there for shooting.

Talking to ANI, the woman said that she was sitting with a male colleague on the sets of the movie when two men, Pawan Shetty and Sagar, arrived with some others and started misbehaving with her friend. When she tried to intervene, they started pushing her and touched her inappropriately, the woman claimed.

Was sitting with a colleague when suddenly 2 men Pawan Shetty&Sagar&4 others came&tried to take away my colleague forcefully. They also threatened. I tried to stop them. Shetty started pushing me&touched my pvt parts. I've filed a molestation case. I want him behind bars: Victim pic.twitter.com/nDQ8uPSQ2q

— ANI (@ANI) October 26, 2018

“When I started screaming, the production people and actors Akshay and Riteish came outside. They only gave us the idea that we should call the police. The accused men ran away when they saw the production people and others,” she said. An FIR has been filed against the molesters.

However, executive producer of ‘Housefull 4’, Manoj Mitra said in a statement that the actors had already left when the incident happened. “The incident took place off the sets and hence I have to state that it is beyond our capabilities. I would also like to clarify that Akshay and Ritiesh had packed up way before this incident occurred. It was their personal matter and nothing related to our film shoot,” Hindustan Times reported.

‘Housefull 4’ has already been in the news due to the all wrong reasons. Be it actress Tanushree Dutta’s accusation against Nana Patekar, one the cast members of the fim, or the director Sajid Khan being accused of sexual misconduct, the movie has been making headlines from the first day.

After the allegations against them, Sajid and Nana have been removed from the movie.