Surveen Chawla is an admirable and amazing actress who started her journey from TV and saw herself migrating to the film world with equal aplomb and grace. Surveen has made herself proud by being part of some amazing work both on small as well as the big screen. Recently, in a chat with popxo.com, Surveen opened up on her horrific experiences with the casting couch.
We take reference from the above article and quote her from there.
Recalling one of the experiences Surveen said, “Then came south and that was my biggest blow. I faced the 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.”
Surveen remembered the one time when she went for an audition for a film being directed by a National award-winning director. Talking about the incident, she said she had to come back to Mumbai soon after the audition as she was not feeling well. To her surprise, she got a call from the director offering to come to Mumbai just because she wasn’t feeling well. Surveen admitted that she found the entire incident very creepy.
Another time, she was told that the director wanted to ‘understand’ her till the time the film was being shot. “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,” said Surveen.
Seriously, these are big revelations coming from Surveen!!
