'Evil dead': Tanushree Dutta reacts to death of Nana Patekar, the actor she named in India's #MeToo reckoning
Sandhya Mridul said survivors should not be erased by public tributes, as Tanushree Dutta’s 2018 harassment allegations against Nana Patekar resurfaced.
- On Thursday, October 8, 2026, actor Nana Patekar died following a cardiac arrest at his home in Goa. Actress Tanushree Dutta faced online backlash after referring to the late actor using the phrase "evil dead."
- The controversy stems from Dutta's 2018 #MeToo allegations against Patekar regarding an intimate step on the set of Horn Ok Pleassss, where she described him as a "sadistic, sick psychopath."
- Actress Sandhya Mridul and singer Sona Mohapatra voiced support for Dutta, with Mridul writing on Instagram that "abuse does not become untrue because the abuser is gone."
- Sona argued that society demands impossible evidence from survivors, noting that harassment rarely happens before witnesses, and criticized double standards in how men are celebrated despite offensive behavior.
- Although Mumbai Police gave Patekar a clean chit in 2019 and a court disposed of the case in 2025, supporters maintain that "dying shouldn't erase uncomfortable chapters of someone's life.
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