BookMyBai bans celebs for their ‘horrendous’ misconduct

A popular online platform that helps people find domestic helps has recently taken a decision to not offer its services to Bollywood celebrities, after receiving several complaints from its employees about celebrities misbehaving with them. BookMyBai, an online platform that provides home helps in four major cities — Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Kolkata — has imposed a blanket ban on all celebrities across the country, citing certain ‘horrendous experiences’.

Anupam Sinhal, a co-founder of the company, announced the company’s decision via an elaborate blog post last Saturday. “We are all fans of some celebrity or the other. We look up to them. They become role models. Some of them also get prestigious national awards for their work. BookMyBai has worked very closely with a lot of Bollywood celebrities and provided them with a good domestic help in Mumbai and other cities, and our experience has been no less than horrendous,” Sinhal’s post stated.

Citing several examples of maids being physically abused and not being given food to eat or leave to attend a relative’s funeral, the post explained the various ways in which domestic helps had suffered injustice while working in the homes of famous people from the film industry.

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