Anurag backs out of Mumbai film body

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Wednesday said he has decided to step back as a board member of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami) because he’s been accused of being complicit when he remained silent when a woman complained to him of being sexually harassed by his business partner Vikas Bahl.

Kashyap and Motwane last week came out in support of an unidentified woman who has accused Bahl of sexually harassing her in 2015 in Goa.

In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Kashyap wrote: “In the light of the current events, 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.”