Hairstylist’s suicide bid after being ‘deprived of work’ sparks outrage in Bengali film industry

A ailment was filed against 11 guild officials astatine Haridebpur constabulary presumption for allegedly instigating Das’s termination attempt.

The hairdresser reportedly had not received immoderate enactment based connected the guild’s instructions for 3 months, starring to important fiscal difficulties arsenic she tried to enactment her family. In a purported termination note, she described the alleged ongoing harassment and the nonaccomplishment of enactment opportunities owed to unit from the guild.

“I was denied 1 occupation aft another,” the hairdresser wrote. “I was acceptable to enactment for Moinak Bhowmik’s upcoming movie but the accumulation manager informed maine that the guild had instructed them not to springiness maine the assignment,” she wrote.

Hema Munshi, a hairdresser artist, expressed her choler implicit the incidental and emphasised the request for just attraction for each members. “I person raised this contented aggregate times, demanding that everyone beryllium allowed to work,” she said. I couldn’t judge that specified an incidental would inactive happen.”

Actor Sudipta Chakraborty, who has been vocal astir the issue, took to societal media to explicit her choler and frustration. “I cannot judge this injustice,” she wrote.

“I volition spot the extremity of it.” Chakraborty besides shared details of Das’s ordeal, highlighting the intelligence torture she faced owed to the guild’s actions.

Another histrion Swastika Mukhopadhyay wrote, “There volition beryllium nary exception. Harassment of immoderate benignant volition not beryllium tolerated successful the workplace. It is clip to abolish the Zamindari strategy from the movie industry. Our movie manufacture hairdresser who poured kerosene connected himself…. Shame connected you, federation, this is however you destruct lives.”