Surveen Chawla is one of the most amazing and talented actresses in the Indian entertainment industry. She has earlier done some credible work and no wonder she deserves all the love and affection that she has been getting from the audience. The actress made her debut way back in Ekta Kapoor’s popular show, ‘Kahiin Toh Hoga’. However, ever since then, it hasn’t been a smooth ride for her.
As per reports in Hindustan Times, she had opened up about facing casting couch during a conversation with Pinkvilla and was quoted as saying,
“South was my biggest blow. I faced casting couch thrice. There was a time I was told to accompany a film director for a recce and I was told ‘I want to know every inch of your body’. I just started ignoring calls from then on.”
She further added,
“On the same phone call, in which I was not speaking to the director as he could only speak Tamil and no English or Hindi. He spoke to me through someone, maybe a friend. That person told me on the phone that ‘sir needs to know you, he needs to understand you as this film will take a long time to make’. And then he jumped to ‘only till the film and then you can stop’. I very innocently asked him ‘stop what’. So, he said ‘just till the film this will go on; then you can stop’. I still remember my words. I told him that you are knocking on the wrong door. If sir thinks I am talented then I am still willing to work in his film but I cannot barter myself. And that film also didn’t happen.”
She concluded about the Hindi film Industry by saying,
“It happened quite recently, last to last year. I had to barge out of an office because of someone trying to insinuate an act and I will never do that,” she went on to add, “One filmmaker to see how my cleavage looks and one filmmaker wants to see how my thighs looked. This kind of stuff happens.”
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