Ankur Pathak (MUMBAI MIRROR; February 19, 2014)

At around 3 pm yesterday, Geetika Tyagi, who has acted in films like Aatma, What The Fish and more recently, One by Two, tweeted a link to a video. Seen in it is Jolly LLB director Subhash Kapoor and his wife, along with Aurangzeb director Atul Sabharwal. They are seen in the midst of a confrontation, apparently about Kapoor having sexually abused Geetika. Kapoor then says he is ashamed of what happened between the two, and is ready to face the consequences of his actions. “I don’t know what to do,” he says. In a heated exchange, Geetika claims that she was pulled in by Kapoor, and whatever happened then has left deep scars on her mind. “I cannot trust a single man. I cannot face my father, brother-in-law or any man who asks me out for coffee without feeling fu***ng jittery,” she shouts out. While Kapoor’s wife says their life is ruined because of the said event and her priority now is to safeguard her son, who will, by Kapoor’s own admission, have to bear the stigma of his father’s actions. “The kid has to bhukto what his Dad did,” Kapoor is heard saying.

The video ends with a shrieking Geetika slapping Kapoor, an act she says will help her let go of the dark past even as Kapoor’s wife helplessly sits by the table. “I’ll probably heal myself after this. Just take care,” Geetika says as she walks out.

When contacted, Geetika, after hearing us out, switched off her phone while Subhash Kapoor said, “I’m shocked to hear about this video just when I’m about to start my next film. I will talk to my lawyer and only then will be able to comment on this.” He even refused to comment on the authenticity of the video.

Meanwhile, a friend of Geetika’s, scriptwriter Danish Raza, admitted that he had introduced the two at a party at Geetika’s friends place two years ago where the incident happened. “Subhash had more beer than he could handle and passed out. As I was leaving, I told Geetika to wake him up. She told me to go and said she’d take care of him. I left and the next day she casually told me how Subhash had got really emotional that night. She said that he had kissed her and so she kissed him back. But now her version is completely different,” says a surprised Danish. “Had she told me that she was molested, I would have been the first person to go the cops. When this boyfriend (Sabharwal) came into the picture, her version changed. Where does ‘forceful’ come in here? Subhash didn’t ask me to leave without him, Geetika did. I don’t know her motives but I do question her intentions,” he said.

However in the video, Geetika accuses Kapoor of manipulating Danish with an altogether different version.