Kathmandu, July 2 -- It was 2015 and for more than a month, Samragyee RL Shah had been doing daily acting workshops for a film. On one specific day, one of the filmmakers came up to her after a workshop and proposed that she act out a romantic scene with him.

"I was taken back, as the actor who was cast opposite me was in another room," recalled Shah, who was just 17 years old at that time while the man was in his late 50s. "But he [the filmmaker] came very close to me and attempted to kiss me."

Shah says she shouted and told him to behave himself but he only laughed at her. This would be the first of numerous instances where this filmmaker misbehaved with her. Over the course of the film's shooting, he would go on to mentally and physi...