Atul Bali, the teacher

A student of the Andheri-based Barry John Acting Studio, run by the eponymous Briton famously known as Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan’s guru, has filed a police complaint against an instructor of the institute for alleged molestation and assault during class. She has alleged that the institute failed to act on her complaint.

According to the 21-year-old complainant, she arrived in the city from Ahmedabad this July to try her luck in Bollywood, and began looking up acting classes soon after. "I came across the Barry John Acting Studio and found that Barry John had trained actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Frieda Pinto. I thought it was my best option and enrolled on July 16 for a three-month course, with two classes per week," she said.

Making advances at her
Soon after the classes began, an instructor, Atul Bali, making passes at her. "Since I was focused on my classes, I ignored them. But on September 12, he molested me and slapped me several times during class," she alleged.