Actor Krishna Mukherjee recently talked about a tough time she faced while working on Dangal TV’s show Shubh Shagun. She accused producer Kundan Singh of letting the team lock her up on set and not paying her properly. In an interview with Indianexpress.com, Krishna explained more about how she and other actors were treated. She even mentioned another incident where Kundan allegedly locked up another actor on a Balaji set.
Krishna clarified that she wasn’t personally locked in the makeup room by Kundan, but by the production staff. She said there’s no need for her to lie and that many others can back up her story. She also mentioned filing a complaint about it. Krishna said, “I never said he locked me in the makeup room, it was the production people. He is just cooking up stories because he has nothing to say right now. Also by mistake Aly said that I was shooting in Madh. I used to shoot in Famous Studios in Goregaon and this all happened there. I have a lot of people who can come ahead and speak on this. I have even registered the FIR there. I don’t have to lie about anything.”
The actor said that while Kundan seemed nice at first, she started having doubts in October when she filed a complaint. His attitude changed, and he avoided looking at her. “Kundan is a very smart guy. He fooled us by saying beta beta, but I realised this in October itself when I filed that FIR that this money will not come. His behaviour had changed, the way he used to look at me was very different. Even Swati Thanawala from the production house had emailed me that she would take responsibility and that I should resume shooting. She made sure that those two people who locked me in the room, Prabhat and Sameer Qazi, did not come back on our sets again. Prabhat was the EP of the show, and Sameer was the HOP of the show. When they locked me, they said that Kundan had done this on a Balaji set once when he was the EP or HOP, but it is impossible for him to do something like this on a Balaji set. The atmosphere was really bad, every time we had to fight for our pay cheques.”
Continuing her story, Krishna Mukherjee shared that she was locked up on set twice, and Kundan Singh made a sexist comment to her. She explained, “When they locked me, Pearl Grey’s assistant Asma held my hand and said I will not shoot, but they said, ‘Aise kaise shoot nahi karegi, kapde badal aur shoot kar. Yeh yahan se jaaegi nahi. (How will she not shoot? Change your clothes and shoot, else you won’t go from here).’ But Asma took me down, and I was so scared because they kept chasing me. That time I didn’t know that Kundan’s room was just below me. He was there and knew everything. He was the one who told them to do this. They locked me twice, once Shezada Dhami opened the door for me. The second time when Asma rescued me, they threatened me saying that they would see how my car left the premises. They are like proper gundas (goons). They were banging my door so hard, I had called the cops. The girl who helped me change took me to the washroom. When I returned and tried to open the door, he had locked me already. I had already worked for 12 hours and didn’t want to work extra because I was not paid. Shehzada had packed up by then, and he was equally pissed because he was not getting paid. I was getting married so I told Kundan that I needed the money. That night when I left, Shehzada was coming from the stairs, that time, Kundan, Sameer, and Prabhat all three were standing there and Kundan told me, ‘Ladki hai na, isliye yeh sab kar rahi hai aur bach gayi. (Just because you are a girl you are doing this and getting away with it).’”
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