Tanushree Dutta lashes out at Nana Patekar supporters after actor's death, warns they’ll 'turn to ashes' in revenge for praising him despite her 2018 harassment allegations
Nana Patekar is dead. The news broke Thursday morning, and within hours, Tanushree Dutta was back in the spotlight — not with a tribute, but a firestorm. On Instagram Stories, she unleashed a blistering diatribe against those still praising the late actor, calling them ‘evil’ and vowing they’d burn in their own fire.
'I’ll watch you turn to ashes,' she wrote. Not a eulogy. A prophecy. And it wasn’t aimed at Patekar.
It was for his fans. For the ones who, in her eyes, celebrated a man she accused of sexual harassment during the filming of Horn ‘Ok’ Pleassss in 2008. Her allegations surfaced in 2018, part of the wave that reshaped India’s #MeToo reckoning. Patekar denied them then.
He denied them now, though no statement has been issued since the death report emerged. But the silence speaks louder than any denial. Now, Dutta’s words are circling social media like smoke from a funeral pyre. She didn’t just mourn.
She weaponised grief. She said those who praised him had ‘burned into my heart’. And vowed they’d face what she did: repeated trauma, for 100,000 years. That’s not mourning.
That’s war. And it’s not over. Because the real question isn’t whether Patekar died. It’s whether the people who defended him will live to see the next day.
Or if they’re already ash.
Be the first to comment
Join the argument. No password, just your email or a passkey.