Lucknow, Oct 19 (IANS) Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut, who is here
to shoot for a film, was harassed by a group of hooligans in the
Kaiserbagh locality of the city.
Kangana is here with co-stars R. Madhavan and Jimi Shergil for the
past 10 days to shoot for Anand L. Rai's "Tanu weds Manu".
The incident took place Sunday at the Lal Baradari building where the
cast and crew were shooting a sequence for the film around 10 p.m. It
was a holiday, so a huge crowd, over 2,000, gathered around the
location.
"It was horrible. A group of youngsters came very close to Kangana,
Madhavan and Jimi and started passing lewd comments about her. Some of
them also tried to touch Kangana," a crew member told IANS.
However, the police denied the allegations.
"Keeping in view the huge gathering, we had deployed entire force of
about four police stations at the Lal Baradari. The director, however,
complained that due to the crowd they were having problems in shooting
as people were coming into the frames," inspector K.M. Singh of
Kaiserbagh police station told IANS.
No police complaint has been lodged.
"We will surely register an FIR if anyone from the crew approaches us
with a formal complaint," Singh said.
Rai, who had earlier directed the thriller "Strangers" starring Jimi
and Kay Kay Menon, is scheduled to film "Tanu weds Manu" in Kanpur,
Faridkot, Patiala and New Delhi in the coming days.
