“The driver unzipped his pants and…”

New Delhi:

Tillotama Shome, known for her expressive performances in films and series, recently recalled a harrowing experience of sexual harassment in Delhi in an interview with Hautterrfly. The A Death in the Gunj actress revealed that she was waiting for a bus in Delhi during the winter months when a group of men got out of a car and started harassing her. “Then they started whistling at me. Someone threw a small stone. I walked a little further away. I thought, I have to get out of here. Either I run now, but they can be faster than me. So I decided to stand in the middle of the road and go with them,” Tillotama Shome told Hautterrfly.

The Hindi Medium The actress revealed that she felt safe when she secured a front seat in a car with a medical sign on it. But worse was to come. “I thought it would be safer since he was a doctor. I got into the car and sat in the front seat. But then the driver unzipped his pants and tried to force my hand to touch his private parts. My instinct kicked in and I hit him. He had to stop the car because of what had happened and asked me to get out. It was a horrific experience and I was shaken. But my instinct to fight back helped me get out of a dangerous situation,” the actress recalled.

Tillotama Shome recently appeared in the Netflix series Tribhuvan Mishra: CA frontrunner with Manav Kaul in the lead role. Previously, she charmed the audience with her simplicity in the third season of the series Kota factory. Tillotama Shome worked in films such as Qissa: The Story of a Lonely Ghost, The Letters, Sold, Children of War, to name just a few. She worked in series such as Mentalhood, Crime in Delhi, The Night Manager.