Amruta Subhash Recalls Calling Out 'Big' Producer: 'How Dare You Touch Me There?'
Amruta recalled one particular incident during her theatre days that left her shaken but not silenced.
Amruta Subhash is not someone who stays silent when lines are crossed. In an interview, the Gully Boy and Wonder Women star opened up about disturbing encounters with inappropriate behaviour including one with a 'big producer" and how she chose to face each of them with fearless confrontation.
Speaking to Zoom, Amruta recalled one particular incident during her theatre days that left her shaken but not silenced. 'There was a producer of a play. I was climbing some stairs, and maybe my top lifted slightly… I felt something — a hand near my waist. I turned around and he was a big producer," she said. What followed was a bold callout in front of everyone present. 'I just looked at him and said, 'What did you just do? What was that?'" Despite his attempts to brush it off, she didn't let it slide. 'I felt it. What was that?" she said. When he blamed her outfit, she retorted, 'It's none of your business! How dare you touch me there?"
The producer was 'very elderly" and well known, but Amruta didn't care about repercussions. 'Everybody was like, 'Her roles will be gone,' and I said, 'Let it go to hell.'"
That wasn't her only unsettling experience. On a train, a teenage boy tried to touch her inappropriately. Instead of shaming him, Amruta took a more instructive route, teaching him a lesson he's unlikely to forget.
In another episode, a senior filmmaker repeatedly harassed her with late-night drink invitations. She finally stormed into his room and confronted him head-on: 'Sir, you are my father's age. Why are you talking to me like this?" She made sure the door stayed open for her safety and delivered her message loud and clear.
'Look them in the eye. These kinds of men are afraid of eye contact," she said. 'If you look scared, they'll try to overpower you. But if you stare right back — they get scared."
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