Earlier
this
month,
BBC
had
released
a
three-part
docuseries
on
late
Bollywood
actress
Jiah
Khan.
The
second
episode
of
the
series
titled
Death
In
Bollywood,
was
released
over
the
weekend
in
the
UK.
In
a
new
revelation,
the
actress'
sister
Karishma
levelled
sexual
harassment
allegations
against
filmmaker
Sajid
Khan
in
the
series.
According
to
reports,
Jiah
has
become
the
seventh
women
in
showbiz
and
entertainment
journalism,
who
has
accused
the
director
in
the
wake
of
#MeToo
movement.
Jiah
Khan
who
died
in
2013,
worked
with
Sajid
Khan
in
the
multi-starrer
comedy
release
Housefull.
The
film
also
starred,
Akshay
Kumar,
Deepika
Padukone,
Ritesh
Deshmukh,
Arjun
Rampal,
Lara
Dutta,
Boman
Irani,
Randhir
Kapoor,
Chunky
Pandey,
and
Malaika
Arora.
While
the
docuseries
was
only
released
in
the
UK,
netizens
have
shared
clips
from
the
same
on
Twitter.
One
such
video
from
Death
In
Bollywood
shows
Karishma
saying,
"It
was
rehearsal,
she
was
reading
the
scripts
and
he
asked
her
to
take
off
her
top
and
her
bra.
She
didn't
know
what
to
do,
she
said
'the
filming
hasn't
even
begun
yet
and
this
is
happening.'
She
came
home
and
cried."
"She
said,
'I
have
a
contract,
and
if
I
leave,
he'll
sue
me
and
slander
my
name
and
if
I
stay
then
I'll
be
sexually
harassed,
it
is
a
lose
lose
situation.'
So,
she
did
do
the
film," Karishma
added.
The
actress'
sister
also
shared
her
own
experience
with
the
filmmaker.
She
said,
"I
remember
going
to
Sajid
Khan's
house
with
my
big
sister
and
I
remember
being
around
the
kitchen
table,
must've
been
like
16
at
this
stage.
I
was
just
wearing
a
strappy
top
and
was
leaned
at
the
table
and
he
was
sort
of
staring
and
said
'Oh
she
wants
sex'.
My
sister
Jiah
immediately
jumped
to
my
defence
and
said
'No
what
are
you
talking
about',
and
he
said,
'Look
at
the
way
she's
sitting'.
"My
sister
said,
'No
she's
innocent,
she's
young,
she
doesn't
know
what
she
wants.'
And
then
we
left
shortly
after
that," Karishma
revealed
in
the
clip.
In
2018,
Sajid
Khan
was
accused
of
sexual
misconduct
by
two
actresses,
Saloni
Chopra
and
Rachel
White
and
one
journalist.
Soon
after,
another
journalist
accused
Khan
of
forcibly
kissing
her.
Followed
by
in
2020,
Indian
model
Paula
claimed
that
the
filmmaker
tried
to
touch
her
inappropriately
and
also
asked
her
to
strip
before
him.
Meanwhile,
Lipstick
Under
My
Burkha
actress
Aahana
Kumra
alleged
that
though
Khan
did
not
touch
her,
he
had
asked
her
inappropriate
questions
when
she
met
him
regarding
work.
Another
actress
Mandana
Karimi
went
on
to
reveal
that
Khan
had
made
inappropriate
remarks
when
she
visited
his
office
to
discuss
a
role
in
his
2014
film
Humshakals.
Since
the
allegations
against
Sajid
Khan
began
in
2018,
he
stepped
down
as
the
director
of
Housefull
4,
which
released
in
2019.