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"Madhur Bhandarkar has denied that he was shunned by Bollywood when he was facing a rape charge. Preeti Jain&amp;#039;s case against the filmmaker was dismissed by the Supreme Court earlier this week. He told The Times of India: &amp;quot;I was never demoralised. I never had to face any kind of suspicion or negativity because of what I was going through. Some of the biggest heroines happily worked with me. &amp;quot;Whether it was Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra or Kareena Kapoor I never felt any awkwardness just because someone had made such a nasty accusation against me.  &amp;quot;I continued to make my movies. I think I did my best work during this period of trial. I feel a crisis like this spurs you to do better than your best.  &amp;quot;In fact right after false allegation I made Page 3 for which I got the National Award. Then I made another National Award-winning film, Fashion. I never fumbled during these past nine years. I continued doing my work.&amp;quot;      Kareena Kapoor claimed last year that Bhandarkar&amp;#039;s Heroine was specially written for her. However, Fashion star Kangana Ranaut was also alleged to be angry at the director for basing scenes on her real life experiences. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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