Pakistani actress Mehreen Shah has called out Director Ahsan Ali Zaidi and Indian Producer Raj Gupta for alleged sexual harassment in Baku.
She took to social media to express her feelings through a video in which she opened up about how she was highly mistreated by the director and the film crew during a shoot in the capital city of Baku, Azerbaijan.
The young model began the video by stating, “The purpose of making this video is to tell people to be careful. It is my first experience working with Syed Ahsan Ali Zaidi. I met him through a reference and I am sure that person is not involved”.
Mehreen Shah revealed that the producer Raj Gupta kept making inappropriate advances towards her, which she ignored. Upon multiple rejections, Raj Gupta and Ahsan Zaidi started mistreating the young Pakistani actress, not even inviting her for dinner or checking up on her wellbeing.
The actress said once while doing BTS, the Indian producer said they were making a video there. When I passed by, they grabbed my hand and I said, “What are you doing?” Meanwhile, the director Ehsan Zaidi was standing there, they were laughing there even knowing how much I felt tormented, and meanwhile, their attitude towards me changed. They didn’t even give me food on the last day of the shoot because I refused what they wanted.
The amount of stress, anxiety I had to face here, I cannot explain. There was unprofessional behavior on set.
The actress said once I fell ill, they didn’t even ask me. A person on the set used to bring medicine to me and I was worried, so they made a scandal about me with this person who kept talking to me during the shooting.
She added that Gupta invited prostitutes to the hotel suite out of habit, which made her very uncomfortable. She warned her co-stars and fellow actresses of the fraternity to re-think before working with such individuals.
She concluded that she had to book her own flight and expenses just to get back to Pakistan. The actress said I have taken Ehsan Zaidi’s passport because he can cancel my ticket, I have my credit card and cash, I will buy my own ticket.
We hope that the authorities take the utmost action in the case and the victim get the justice they deserve,
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