New Delhi: Actress Geetika Tyagi, who has been part of films 'What The Fish', 'Aatma', and 'One by Two', on Wednesday accused 'Jolly LLB' director Subhash Kapoor of molesting her, making public a video taken on a spy cam featuring her, Kapoor, his wife Dimple Kharbanda and filmmaker Atul Sabharwal.
Kapoor is seen acknowledging the sexual abuse which allegedly happened a year ago, in the video, his wife pleading with Tyagi to consider the impact making this public would have on their son and Tyagi slapping Kapoor in a fit of rage.
Tyagi tweeted the video on February 19 with a cryptic post 'confession of the sexual abuser'.
The video footage shows Subhash, who had allegedly sexually abused Tyagi, saying that he was ashamed of his misconduct and was willing to face the consequences.
"After talking to you (Sabharwal) and Geetika yesterday, she (his wife) felt that probably if you'll come, it will help. Though I don't know how it will help. But I'm here because I have no excuse, no answer to anything to her. In this entire scheme of things there is somebody who has taken the bulk... in my scenario, it is my wife who isn't connected with it, who had to accept certain things..."
In an attempt to avert the negative impact of the incident on their son, Subhash's wife Dimple begs Atul to keep the issue private.
"When I came to your house I started off by saying that I'm offering unconditional, without any reason my apologies for my conduct," Subhash recalls.
While Subhash tells Geetika, "I didn't drag you inside," she retorts, "You pulled me, Subhash. You were holding my hand..."
As Geetika recalls the incident, she tells Subhash, "I can't trust any man. I don't have a single friend aaj ki date mei jisey mai bolun let us have coffee together or go out, sit and talk. Maine bahut bahut suffer kiya hai, Subhash. My own brother in law, my own father, my uncles... I'm jittery, I'm always fu***ng jittery.
The video ends with Tyagi slapping Kapoor, for his misbehavior.
Read below Tyagi's intention for uploading the video...
My intentions for uploading this video are:
a) to caution those girls who will come in contact with this man, Subhash Kapoor, socially or professionally and will make the mistake of looking up to him as father-figure or as an elder brother and trust him and
b) for all girls who, if god forbid become victims of sexual assault, not to give in to pleading of their attacker's wife, sister, mother, daughter or any woman who claims to be suffering and asks for your forgiveness for attacker. Dimple Kharbanda shamelessly attended film award functions within a week of this meeting that she did not know I was recording.
It is not easy to upload this. Like that sexual assault this too is invasion of my privacy that I am compelled to compromise by my own conscious to expose what Subash Kapoor did to me. A woman suffers in both the scenarios, when she stays quiet and when she speaks up.
I hope this fate does not befall on any woman anywhere.
Meanwhile, scriptwriter Danish Raza, also Geetika's friend took to Facebook to share the details of the evening when the incident happened.
Danish Raza's Facebook post
You can remain a mute spectator only till a point of time. Beyond that if you keep quiet, rather than neutral, you become a party to the 'crime'. As the first hand witness to the the evening on which Geetika Tyagi has based her allegations of molestation on Subhash Kapoor, both mutual friends introduced by me, and having been there with them 90% of the time that night, I need to put some facts on record.
1. Geetika's first narration to me of this incident, the day after it happened was not of sexual assault. To me it clearly sounded like something that happened between two people and there was no mention of an assault. Her first version was exactly same as Subhash's (consistent) version and her version changed only two days later when she alleged, in the presence of Atul Sabharwal, that 'force' was used. Even in that case she says Subhash stopped when she said 'stop" so where is molestation in it?
2. At 5 am, which must have been in the middle of the incident when she messaged me asking if I have reached home, and I called her back in response immediately, she very coolly told me " Subhash has woken up and he is leaving". there was no mention of the incident, forget force or molestation.
3. Previously, after 4 am, when Geetika's sister and her friend left and only me Subhash and her were left in that house, I asked her "should i wake him up so we can leave"'? and she said " No, its ok, let him sleep"
4. when I told her i want to go home she said "Ok, if you want to go, you can go". I obviously assumed she had no issues with Subhash's presence in her house and left.
5. All through our interaction over the 6 years, it was almost always Geetika who would initiate a meeting with three of us, (not related to work but just coffee sessions). Subhash never asked me to get Geetika along. So there is no way Subhash could have been planning anything that she alleges.
And why am I doing this? Well for the same reason that I told her "Had you even hinted of molestation, at 5 a.m. in the morning I would have been the 1st person to go with you to the police station"####
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