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    Home / News / Entertainment News / Vikas Bahl calls Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya opportunists, sends legal notice
    Vikas Bahl calls Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya opportunists, sends legal notice
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    Vikas Bahl calls Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya opportunists, sends legal notice

    By Ranpreet Kaur
    Oct 10, 2018
    08:48 pm
    Vikas Bahl calls Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya opportunists, sends legal notice
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    Amidst the ongoing #MeToo movement, director Vikas Bahl, who has been accused of sexual harassment, has sent a legal notice to the Phantom co-founders Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. He has called them opportunists and accused them of defaming him. Vikas has even asked for 'an unconditional apology' from both of them, and has demanded their statements against him should be withdrawn.

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    Anurag and Vikramaditya made me a scapegoat, says Vikas

    In the legal notice, Vikas has alleged that Anurag had bribed another Phantom employee who in turn accused the 'Queen' director of sexually harassing her in 2015. He also accused Anurag-Vikramaditya of making him a scapegoat for dissolving Phantom Films. "You are neither a witness nor the alleged victim, but instead an opportunist seeking to derive benefit based on unsubstantiated information," the notice read.

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    They are putting the sole blame on me, claims Vikas

    Vikas also claimed that there is no authenticity to the allegations leveled against him. He stated Anurag and Vikramaditya have reacted without verifying the facts and also "exploited the media to propagate your own personal vendetta". Vikas made it a point that dissolution of Phantom Films was in talks for a while owing to creative differences between the founders.

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    "Anurag's statements are contradicting"

    In the notice, Vikas also pointed out the evident contradictions in Anurag's statement on the matter. Reportedly, the alleged victim had claimed that Anurag didn't show "any inclination to act on her allegations" in 2015. However, as per his recent statements, Anurag claims to be standing by the victim. He said he did whatever was expected of him as a Director of the company.

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    Vikramaditya knew there was no sexual harassment incident

    The notice further mentioned that Vikramaditya was aware of the fact that no sexual harassment incident took place. He even showed the screenshots of his conversation with the alleged victim to Anurag. But despite knowing the truth, Vikramaditya chose to issue a statement against Vikas. "Motwane, after the victim outed him went ahead and issued statements against Bahl," the notice reads.

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    Meanwhile, Anurag steps down as a board member from MAMI

    While Anurag and Vikramaditya are yet to respond to Vikas's notice, the former has stepped down as a board member of MAMI. He tweeted about the same and wrote, "I have decided to step back from my duties as a board member from MAMI until the shadow of doubt of our alleged complicitness in silence and not doing anything about it, is cleared."

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