Kolkata: Over 50 filmmakers of the Bengali movie sector on Sunday released a declaration articulating their suffering over affirmed efforts to revile the whole society after fees of sex-related transgression were brought versus a popular supervisor.
Referring to the current choice of the Directors’ Association of Eastern India (DAEI) to put on hold the charged supervisor, the filmmakers’ body stated one such case must not be made use of as a device to taint the photo of the whole society by making wild insurance claims regarding “casting couch”.
“We have already made it clear that if someone is found guilty, he should not be shielded and stern action must be taken against him. Our guild has already taken steps in this regard. But we will resist any effort to use one incident as a tool to malign the entire community of directors,” the declaration stated.
Among those that authorized the declaration were Kaushik Ganguly, Parambrata Chatterjee, Indranil Roy Choudhury, Soukarjya Ghosal, Abhijit Guha, Sudeshna Roy, Anjan Dutt, Ashok Biswanathan, Haranath Chakraborty and Subrata Sen.
The DAEI had actually lately placed filmmaker Arindam Sil under uncertain suspension on fees of sex-related transgression versus a starlet on the collections of a movie.
Sil had actually asserted the DAEI had actually taken an independent choice without hearing his variation and revealed remorse if he had “accidentally touched” any person throughout the shoot to clarify a scene.
He had actually additionally stated apologised for any kind of such “unintentional conduct” in a letter to the state females’s payment.
In Sunday’s declaration, the supervisors stated if there was any kind of abusive declaration by any kind of stakeholder in the Bengali movie sector targeting the supervisors en masse, they would jointly take lawsuit.
The declaration was come before by claims from some quarters that “casting couch” by filmmakers prevailed in the Bengali movie sector.
Published 15 September 2024, 17:31 IST
