Recently Aamir Khan along with his wife Kiran Rao was spotted at Producers’ Guild office to attend a meeting on the ongoing sexual assault allegations. The Guild had earlier said that it is a meeting to take another step to ensure women safety in Bollywood. Taking a serious step, Aamir Khan annouced on his twitter handle that he will step away from his next production film-Mogul which is going to be directed by Subhash Kapoor. We wonder is this because Subash Kapoor had allegedly assaulted Geetika Tyagi?
https://twitter.com/aamir_khan/status/1050068184995426306
Here is what the statement says:
“As creative people we have been committed to foregrounding and finding solutions to social issues, and at Aamir Khan Productions we have always had a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour of any kind. We strongly condemn any act of sexual harassment, and equally we condemn any and all false accusations in such cases.
Two weeks ago, when traumatic #MeToo stories began emerging, it was brought to our attention that someone we were about to begin work with has been accused of sexual misconduct. Upon enquiry we found that this particular case is subjudice, and that the legal process is in motion.
We are not an investigative agency, nor are we in any position to pass judgement on anyone – that is for the police and judiciary to do. So, without casting any aspersions on anyone involved in this case, and without coming to any conclusions about these specific allegations, we have decided to step away from this film.
We do not want our action to reflect in any manner on the people involved in this case.
We believe that this is an opportunity for the film industry to introspect and take concrete steps towards change. For far too long women have faced the brunt of sexual exploitation. It has to stop. In this regard we are committed to doing any and everything to make our film industry a safe and happy one to work in.
Kiran Rao and Aamir Khan”
After Thugs Of Hindostan, Aamir Khan is all set to to co-produce Subhash Kapoor directorial Mogul, which is a biopic of Gulshan Kumar. Stay tuned with us for more Bollywood news and updates.
