Anurag Kashyap finds support from B'wood after Payal Ghosh's sexual assault allegation

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who has been accused by actor Payal Ghosh of sexual harassment on Sunday said the claim is "baseless" and found support in his industry friends, including Sayani Gupta, Gulshan Devaiah, Swara Bhasker, Anjana Sukhani, lyricist Garima, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, and many more.

On Saturday, Ghosh took to Twitter and wrote that the "Gangs of Wasseypur" director was sexually inappropriate towards her, a claim he has dismissed. The 30-year-old actor tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in her tweet, requesting him to take action against Kashyap. "@anuragkashyap72 has forced himself on me and extremely badly. @PMOIndia @narendramodi ji, kindly take action and let the country see the demon behind this creative guy. I am aware that it can harm me and my security is at risk. Please help!" Ghosh wrote. 

In a video released to ABN Telugu, Ghosh claimed that the incident happened in 2014-2015. The actor, who made her Hindi debut with Rishi Kapoor-Paresh Rawal starrer "Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi", also claimed that Kashyap told her that there were other female artistes who he got intimate with. Dismissing the allegations, Kashyap called Ghosh's claim an attempt to "silence" him. 

Anurag Kashyap took to his Twitter handle and wrote that it had taken some people "such a long time" to "shut me up". "(But) while shutting me up, you lied so much that you dragged other women also in it. Please maintain some dignity madam. All I will say is that all your allegations are baseless," Kashyap, 48, tweeted. "Any lover or all those female actors with whom I've worked or the team of all those girls and women that have been working with me or all those women I've met in private or in public. I neither behaved like this nor do I tolerate such a behaviour at any cost. Rest we will see what happens," he added. 

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(with PTI inputs)