Bengal Director Says "Was Unintentional" After Actor's #MeToo Charge

The actor had filed the complaint with the West Bengal Commission for Women. Filmmaker Arindam Sil said the directors' association suspended him before he could present his views

Bengali filmmaker Arindam Sil, who was suspended by the Directors' Association of Eastern India (DAEI) following a complaint of alleged sexual harassment by an actor, has denied the charges and said what was being construed as misbehaviour was unintentional. He said he never took it that way, and the alleged incident happened during the normal course of shooting in front of people.

Mr Sil is the first big name in the Bengali film industry, also called Tollywood, against whom action has been taken by the DAEI, following a massive #MeToo movement in the Kerala film industry.

"How do I react? I don't know. But only one thing I can say I have been 100 per cent clear to my conscience, and the matter to which I have been blamed is something that has happened in front of all who were there while I was discussing a sequence and acting, how a scene should be done. I think most directors do that," Mr Sil told NDTV today.