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National award winner Prakruti Mishra addressed rumours of affair with her co-star

On Sunday, actor Prakruti Mishra took to her social media handle to issue a statement following the curculation of a video showcasing her being harassed on the streets of Bhubaneswar. Prakruti was allegedly beaten by the wife of her co-star, Babushaan Mohanty, who suspected the two actors of having an affair.

The footage showed Prakruti being grabbed by a lady in her car and spectators taking videos while she cried for help. Prakruti was able to get out of the vehicle as the woman followed her. She signalled for an auto-rickshaw to halt.

Prakruti posted anything about the incident on Instagram around midnight. She mentioned in a note written in Odia, “Every story has two sides. Unfortunately, we are living in such a society where people blame women before listening anything. Me and my co-star Babushaan were heading for Chennai to attend an event being organised by Utkal Association. During the period, Babushaan’s wife along with some goons started heckling the actor and assaulted me physically and mentally.”
“Such behaviour shown by Babushaan’s wife is not acceptable to me,” she wrote.

She also shared a post about women’s empowerment. “Working out on Women Empowerment For this Society is Subject to “the Ground Breaking” reality of facing the real harassment, do they know I have a Larger goal towards changing the dogma I think it empowers me to work more for it! I think I’m not yet done with my work, and I need to do more to finally achieve my goal Women Empowerment,” she wrote. A person left a comment on her post, accusing her of ‘stealing another woman’s husband’.

“Yes women empowerment is stealing some other women’s husband and stealing a father from his child Dis I what this generation is learning from the phase women empowerment Kudos to you,” read the comment. Prakruti replied, “I wish you had brains enough to see what happened kudos to you for judging someone so fast.”

As per a news channel, Babushaan also explained in a video, “All of you must be enjoying watching my viral videos. But, I want to tell you that I came to Chennai to participate in Utkal Divas celebrations and Prakutri Mishra was also invited to the event. I came here to promote my film in which Prakruti is working opposite me, and we were also planning to announce a new film.”

“I was not aware that my family was going through disturbances. If my family has issues with this then I will not do that film with her. If required, I will not work with any heroines in the future,” the actor said in his video statement.

Prakruti received a National Film Award Special Mention for Hello Arsi. She has appeared in the Hindi tv drama Bitti Business Walli.

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