Ajay Devgn's make-up artist gets sacked after Tanya Paul accuses him of sexual harassment

In the wake of the MeToo movement, every single day, new names are cropping up. While some involve Bollywood's big names, others are directly or indirectly related to them. The new name that recently came out in the open is of Ajay Devgn's make-up artist Harish Wadhone. Assistant director Tanya Paul narrated a harrowing she experienced on the sets of Ajay and Tabu starrer De De Pyaar De, which is being produced by Luv Ranjan. In a tweet, Tanya shared her ordeal, and also thanked the entire crew of the film for not tolerating such behaviour and coming out in her support.

In a Tweet shared by her on her personal handle, Tanya wrote "As an assistant director at the monitor with headphones when the first AD announced roll sound, I felt hands on my shoulder. Since I’m wired and already with a lot of continuity files in my hand, it’s almost impossible to look behind who it was. I could tell it was a man. He began to give me a very strong massage from head to tailbone. The touch did not seem right. In the middle of the shot, I couldn’t say anything. He picked a good time to victimize.”

“The director said the shot was okay, but it had a continuity jerk, so, after 'cut', I had to run to inform them about the potential mistake. I had no time to respond to him. When I returned to the monitor, he said I should thank him for the massage. His presence made me extremely uncomfortable.”

She further wrote how this incident was not the end of it, as another one followed shortly after “He would lean on the chair on the excuse of watching a close-up shot of Ajay Devgn. I felt his fingers on my back again. I informed, rather ordered, one of the interns to stand by my chair and not let anyone lean over to watch the Shogun. The make-up guy had the balls to move the intern physically so he could lean on me.

Tanya Paul Singh confessed the matter to a colleague who informed the creative team. It was then that Luv Ranjan called her personally and said she should have reported the matter earlier. He also said that he won’t tolerate any such behaviour on the set. Tanya says, Luv had a word with Ajay Devgn and Wadhone was eventually fired from the film.

"Harish was the oldest in Ajay Devgn’s team, so everyone had a general feeling on the set that he might get away with a lighter punishment. "But it was good to see that Devgn sir and Ranjan treated this as a serious matter," she concluded and later thanked Ajay Devgn, Tabu, director and producers of the film for standing by her.