Veteran actor Nana Patekar recently addressed the sexual harassment allegations made against him by actress Tanushree Dutta in 2018 during the #MeToo movement. 

The Bollywood actor asserted that he always believed the accusations were untrue, which is why he chose not to react angrily or respond to them earlier.

In response to Patekar's statement, Tanushree Dutta has now labelled him 'a pathological liar.' She took to social media to address the controversy, questioning why it took Patekar six years to respond to the allegations. 

In her detailed post, she stated, "How big a liar Nana Patekar is the whole world knows now after the Varanasi boy slapping incident."

"How big a liar Nana Patekar is the whole world knows now after the Varanasi boy slapping incident. Nana first tried to make it look like to slap the kid who was part of the shoot & then he got severe public backlash for trying to cover up his abuse. Then he suddenly took a U-turn & apologised half-heartedly. Why take 6 years to respond to #metoo??" she wrote on Instagram. 

She continued by asserting that Patekar's sudden change of stance stemmed from his apprehension about her possible intention to file another FIR against him, alleging conspiracy to commit murder, criminal intimidation, threats, stalking, and physical harm.

"I'll tell u why...because he knows dat I may be contemplating another FIR on Nana for conspiracy to murder, criminal intimidation & threat, stalking and causing physical harm. I went through severe harassment from unknown groups of people last few years. I was followed & stalked by strangers wherever I went. Freak Accidents and several attempts to poison me with various substances ensued relentlessly. There were a few attempts to corner me and manipulate me into dangerous situations with strangers too. A lot of weird stuff kept happening to me & around me & All of these people seemed like hired goons. The situations I was in and having to navigate through seemed very much like what SSR might have gone through but thank God I survived all this. No prizes for guessing who was behind all this given Nana's criminal background. ( Nana proudly boasts in YouTube interviews about being closely related to deceased underworld gangster Manya Surve). He thought that I would be dead by now according to his plan but I survived. And now he is scared and his supporter base in Bollywood has dwindled. All those who supported him are either bankrupt, lost their status or have sidelined him. People can see through his manipulations now and thus he comes up with another major gaslight."

"Nana Patekar is a pathological liar. Every director he has ever worked with has a story to tell about his manipulative & abusive behaviour on set. So all of them are liars too?? If he can slap and hit directors then misbehavior with women is no big deal for him, don't you think?? Even Veteran actress Dimple Kapadia called him "obnoxious" in a viral YouTube interview. She is a liar too?? What about the Varanasi boy whom he slapped and who came into the media and said that he was not part of any shoot and that he just got slapped for no reason? He is a liar too??," she wrote on Instagram. 

In 2018, Tanushree Dutta filed a complaint accusing Nana Patekar, choreographer Ganesh Acharya, and director Vivek Agnihotri of inappropriate behaviour during the shooting of a song sequence. 

Despite the FIR and legal proceedings initiated against him and others, Patekar has consistently denied the allegations and maintained his innocence.