#MeToo India: Luv Ranjan Defend, Denied The Allegations And Yet Apologies

Yesterday director of Pyar Ka Punchanama, Luv Ranjan was accused of asking a woman to strip in auditions. Women anonymously said that the director:

Asked me to strip down to my bra and panties. He said he wanted to see my body so could check if I needed to lose weight. After this Luv asked me if I’m a virgin. I stayed shocked After this, Luv Ranjan asked if I used condoms. Finally, he asked if I did masturbate. By then, I was scared and asked if I could leave.

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Luv Ranjan denied all the allegation in a page long post on twitter stating — I am not the man that I am being portrayed as. I am not. I never was, I never will be.

Read: The Allegations on Luv Ranjan

He continued:

It doesn’t matter that I don’t accept the narrative, what matters is that someone feels hurt enough to present this narrative. I apologise to whoever I have caused hurt, whoever I have not made feel comfortable enough. Apologise for not being able to communicate my intent. I apologise for not being able to make someone think that I am the man that I have aspired to be and I believe I am.

Luv Ranjan full statement:

It’s a shame how this count is increasing every day. Women’s are speaking out. All started with Tanushree DuttaAIB came, Utsav ChakrabortyAnurag Verma from HuffPost India, also Jeeveshu AhluwaliaRajat KapoorAlok NathGaurang Doshi from Bollywood with Vairamuthu the Tamil lyricist as well. MJ Akbar is also accused by several women’s. It’s actually difficult to recall all the names as these are coming thick and fast.