New Delhi: On Thursday, actor Jennifer Mistry Bansiwal, who played Mrs Roshan Sodi, in the TV show 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah' (TMKOC), revealed that she quit the show and accused producer Asit Modi, Project Head Sohail Ramani and executive producer Jatin Bajaj of alleged sexual harassment at the workplace. The makers have now denied the allegations and called it a lie.
Producer Asit Modi denied the allegations and said that the makers sacked the actress from the show. , "This is just a fake and baseless allegation and it holds no truth. She is just trying to malign my image. This is my genuine reaction and I am not trying to make excuses or cover up. Everyone knows how I am in real life. We sacked her from the show and my team. My director and the team asked her to leave the show. We have all the proof and I am not talking just randomly. My production will soon send you all the proofs and documents,” he was quoted as saying by ETimes.
Asit Modi also said that he will take legal action against her.
The production house has also issued a statement. “She lacked basic discipline on the set and was not focusing on her work. We regularly had to complain to the production head about her behaviour. On her last day she was abusive in front of the whole unit and left the set without finishing her shoot. She regularly misbehaved on the show with the entire team. While moving out from the shoot, she rashly drove her car out at very high speed not caring for people in her way. She even damaged the set property. We had to terminate her contract because of her bad behaviour and indiscipline during the shoot.”
Jennifer Mistry Bansiwal had said that despite asking for a half day in advance on her wedding anniversary and Holi (March 7), she was not given even a two hour off. When she retaliated and Project Head Sohail Ramani spoke to her rudely asking her to get out almost four times. Her car was also stopped.
She also said that the adjustments were made for the male actors and called the production an ‘extremely male-chauvinistic place.’
She also claimed that producer Asit Modi has made sexual advances towards her many times in the past and she ignored it because of fear of losing work.