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Actress Tanushree Dutta is rightly regarded as the founding-mother of the " MeToo Movement " in India. When she spoke on her experience of being harassed 10 years ago, she opened up the floodgates for numerous other women from every walk of life to come forward with their stories. But now, Tanushree is done. She is all set to return to the US, and refuses to take credit for starting the " MeToo Movement " in India. "The media is just making a heroine out of an ordinary person's organic journey. I was not the doer but just a conduit and a vessel through which some change or awareness had to come about in society," she said. Not that she is distancing herself completely from the movement. "In a way, I needed retribution too from the incident that pushed me back several years in my professional life." But now it's time for her to return to routine life in the US. Read More Business Standard

Lending his support to gender equality, actor Akshay Kumar said that strong women make stronger countries. Akshay along with a bevy of Bollywood celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Vicky Kaushal, Rekha, Zeenat Aman, Hema Malini, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Alia Bhatt, gathered on Sunday night to attend the 3rd Lux Golden Rose Awards to extend their support to the United Nations' campaign # HeForShe . Talking on the subject, Akshay said: " When women are strong, families become strong and countries stronger . I am happy to be a part of a family which has many strong women like my mother, my wife, my sister and my mother-in-law." The campaign celebrates the contribution of women to society. Talking about the role of female actors in the industry, Shah Rukh said: "These women have contributed to making me a better human." Gen-next stars like Taapsee Pannu, Nushrat Bharucha, Janhvi Kapoor, Ishaan K

Actress Rasika Dugal says there's hardly an acknowledgement of women as sexual beings in Hindi cinema and hopes for more nuanced characters for them in films. "There is hardly ever an acknowledgement of women as sexual beings in our cinema. Women are either shown as objects of titillation or sympathy and I think we need to change that conversation and that gaze. I hope that with better writing and more sensitivity, we can have more nuanced and interesting roles for women," Rasika said in a statement. The 33-year-old actress will soon be seen in Amazon Prime's original series "Mirzapur", in which she plays the wife of Kaleen Bhaiya, essayed by Pankaj Tripathi. Rasika plays his wife Beena, a sexually liberated woman stuck in a marriage of dissatisfaction. The series also stars Ali Fazal and Shweta Tripathi. Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan serve as the executive producers of the Amazon Prime Video project, created by Karan Anshuman and Puneet Kri

Actress Dalljeit Kaur, who made a comeback on the small screen after a year with the supernatural thriller "Qayamat Ki Raat", says content makers on Indian television were not willing to cast her for younger roles in shows as she is a mother of one General News : Actress Dalljeit Kaur , who made a comeback on the small screen after a year with the supernatural thriller " Qayamat Ki Raat ", says content makers on Indian television were not willing to cast her for younger roles in shows as she is a mother of one and 35 years old. Asked if age, marital status and motherhood is looked down upon in the small screen, Dalljiet, 35, told IANS: "I faced all of this for a year. I was looking young. They (makers) would approach me for a mother's role, but they would say 'You are looking young'. "Then why are you not casting me for something else? Because I am a mother? So, the conflict of this thought level really used to depress me.&quo