Television actress Navina Bole, known for her roles in ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’ and ‘Ishqbaaz’, has come forward with serious allegations of sexual harassment against filmmaker Sajid Khan. In a candid interview with journalist Subhojit Ghosh, Bole described a disturbing encounter dating back to the early 2000s.
‘He told me to take off my clothes and sit in lingerie’
Bole recalled being invited to Khan’s home under the pretext of a professional meeting. “You know I was really excited when he called me,” she said. “Then he literally said, ‘Why don’t you just get off your clothes and sit in your lingerie. I need to see how comfortable you are.’ I am talking about 2004 and 2006 when I did Gladrags.”
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She clarified that the meeting did not occur in a professional setting. “It was not at his office, it was at his house,” she said. “Somehow I managed to get out of that place, and he must have called me at least 50 times, asking me, why am I not coming, where have I reached.”
According to Bole, Khan tried to justify his request by referencing her past modelling appearances. “He said, ‘Why, you wore a bikini on stage, so what is the problem? It’s all ‘Ti*s and a*s,’ in his language. You can just calm and sit here comfortably and just sit here, be yourself.’”
She refused and quickly found a way to leave the location. “I said, ‘Listen, I really need to go home and get into a bikini if that is what you really want to see, but I cannot be sitting here and strip right now,’” she recalled.
Sajid Khan Called Her Again a Year Later
Bole also revealed that Sajid Khan contacted her again a year later when she was participating in ‘Mrs India’. “He had called me again then and asked me, ‘What do you do, you should come see me for a role,’” she said. “And I said this guy must be hitting on so many women that he does not even remember that one year ago he had called me to his place, and he has already hit on me so badly.”
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In the interview, she stated, “There was a terrible, terrible man who I would never want to meet in my life called Sajid Khan. He came after so many of us after Gladrags, and he just really pushed the envelope when it came to disrespecting women.”
Sajid Khan and the #MeToo Movement
Sajid Khan was previously named in the 2018 #MeToo movement in India, when multiple women from the entertainment industry accused him of sexual misconduct. The list included Saloni Chopra, Sherlyn Chopra, Aahana Kumra, and Mandana Karimi.
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Navina Bole’s Career
Navina Bole is best known for playing Dr Monica in ‘Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah’. She has appeared in numerous Indian TV shows, including ‘Yeh Hai Mohabbatein’, ‘Kumkum Bhagya’, ‘Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai’, ‘Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli’, and ‘Tere Ishq Mein Ghayal’.
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