Fox Star Studios on Friday sacked a Bollywood director working on a Hindi-language remake of hit US movie "The Fault In Our Stars" after he was accused of sexual harassment by two women. Mukesh Chhabra is the latest to get embroiled in India's Metoo movement which has been gaining traction, with several women calling out powerful men in government, Bollywood and the media.
Fox Star Studios, a joint venture between Fox and Star India, said Chhabra had been asked to exit the project as it "takes allegations of sexual harassment of women at workplace very seriously".
An internal complaints committee would look into the allegations against Chhabra, it said in a statement on Twitter.
Two women have accused Chhabra of sexual harassment during auditions, according to the local media, both anonymously.
"He (Chhabra) asked me to enact a scene which had the hero and the heroine hugging each other," one of the unnamed women was quoted as saying.
"Under the pretext of showing me how the scene should be performed, he grabbed me hard and felt me up. I could feel his hand on my butt."
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