2008 Footage of Tanushree Dutta's car being damaged - Page 6

The man in the orange t-shirt, who is seen repeatedly striking at Tanushree Dutta's car with his video camera, is Pawan Bharadwaj, who at the time was a cameraperson working with Sahara's news television channel. Speaking to The Quint Pawan Bharadwaj says that the reason he attacked Tanushree's car had nothing to with the controversy that was going on between her and Nana Patekar on the sets of Horn Ok Pleasss. "I was asked by the assignment desk to go for a shoot at Filmistan studio that day. I went with our reporter Tejal Mehta to do the story at Filmistan, I did not have any idea what the story was or who is involved in it. We waited for the actors to exit the shooting floor and as soon as we saw Tanushree Dutta and her father emerge, I started rolling my camera. But Tanushree's team attacked our reporter Tejal and then her father snatched my camera from my hand and slammed it on the ground, my camera broke from the front and back, recounts Pawan.

Pawan also alleges that Tanushree and her father then got into their car and tried to rush out of the studio compound during which the tyre of their car ran over his feet.

"I almost fainted, the bystanders sprinkled water on my face and I revived myself and realised that their car had been stopped near the exit gate by a crowd. I was angry that my camera had been destroyed, I was worried about my job and so I demanded a compensation, but they did not listen to me, so I started hitting the car with my camera in my frustration, he adds.

According to Pawan, the news channel filed a complaint with the police against Tanushree Dutta and her father for assaulting their reporter and damaging their property. However, both the parties came to an understanding the very same day and the complaint was dismissed by the police after Tanushree and TV channel officials shook hands over the matter.