Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the most recent celebrity to face the Me Too storm after his former girlfriend and actress Niharika Singh mentioned him in her story of alleged harassment. On 9 November, the former Miss India winner made her story public through a series of tweets shared by journalist Sandhya Menon.
Now, Siddiqui’s Sacred Games co-actor Kubra Sait has backed her colleague. On 10 November, the 35-year-old actress took to Twitter to point out that “relationship gone sour, isn’t #MeToo.”
“A relationship gone sour, isn’t #MeToo someone needs to recognise the toxic difference before we go picking sides. I stand by #NawazuddinSiddiqui or #Nowaz as a man,” her tweet read.
A relationship gone sour, isn’t #MeToo someone needs to recognise the toxic difference before we go picking sides.
I stand by #NawazuddinSiddiqui or #Nowaz as a man.— Kubbra Sait (@kubrasait) November 10, 2018
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Kubra further said she stood by the fact that Niharika Singh “may have had a tough time in the industry”. “I stand by the fact that although Niharika Singh may have had a tough time in the industry, categorising her once personal relationship as a #MeToostatement is incorrectly placed. We as humans are flawed. That isn’t gender specific,” she wrote in a subsection tweet.
I stand by the fact that although Niharika Singh may have had a tough time in the industry, categorising her once personal relationship as a #MeToo statement is incorrectly placed. We as humans are flawed. That isn’t gender specific.
— Kubbra Sait (@kubrasait) November 10, 2018
From her modelling days to “harrowing experiences” with some men in the entertainment industry, Niharika Singh bared it all in her #MeToo story.
Referring to popular actor Nawauddin Siddiqui as a “sexually repressed Indian man”, the Miss Lovely actress narrated her experience with the actor and their relationship.