Alok Nath accused of rape by producer Vinta Nanda

Bollywood and TV’s ‘most sanskaari actor’, Alok Nath has been accused of raping veteran writer-producer of the avant-garde 1990s' show "Tara" fame, Vinta Nanda. Vinta in a post on her Facebook account has alleged the lead actor of the soap opera of sexually exploiting her back then. Although she has not mentioned the name of the actor in her post, but her suggestive remarks like "sanskaari" and that the person concerned was the "lead actor" and a "television star of that decade" were good enough to make out that she was indeed pointing the finger at Alok.

Later she confirmed the same to the news agency IANS via SMS, saying that it is Alok Nath and her calling him 'sanskaari' would do the needful.

Who is Alok Nath?

• Alok Nath is a film actor known for his works in Hindi cinema and television
• Alok is known for his roles as a stereotypical Indian father, personifying religious traditions and moral values in films and TV shows
• The 62-year-old actor made his film debut with the 1982 film Gandhi which won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year
• He later appeared in the soap opera Buniyad which took the country by a storm in 1982
• He was also in Rishtey, which aired from 1999-2001. He had also appeared in the Star Plus serial Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai
• He later worked in Yahaaan Main Ghar Ghar Kheli and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
• Alok Nath meme - The jokes and memes based on characters played by Alok Nath started trending on social media and spread quickly in the year 2014. The content led to the buzz around veteran Bollywood actor went tremendously viral on various social media platforms.

However, now Alok Nath now stuck into the row of harassing and humiliated Vinta Nanda subsequently. It is the escalating voices against sexual harassment across the world as part of the #MeToo wave that gave Nanda the courage to pen down the experiences which had left her "shattered". Nanda also urged people who have suffered at the hands of predators, to come out and say it aloud.