Actress Surveen Chawla opened up about casting couch experiences she faced in her career. The Sacred Games actress, told Pinkvilla that she has faced such situations five times in her career. She said that of the five, three were in the south Indian film industry.
The 35-year-old actress, who recently gave birth to her daughter, said that a film director in the south wanted to know 'every inch of her body'. Recounting another experience, she said: “This was another ridiculously big director down south, a National Award-winning director. I had a very long audition there, it almost lasted a shift. I was unwell and I returned after the audition. Then the director suddenly offered to come to Mumbai as I was unwell. I found it very creepy.”
Sharing one of her Bollywood experiences, the actress said: “I had to barge out of an office because of somebody trying to insinuate an act and I will never do that. Lines to me are very very clear. One filmmaker wanted to see how my cleavage looks and one filmmaker wants to see how my thighs looked. This kind of stuff happens.”
Before making it to the big screen, Surveen was a household name due to her roles on TV soaps like Kahin to Hoga, Kasautii Zindagi Kay and Kaajjal. In the interview, she also talks about the transition to the big screen and how people said she was 'over exposed because of television'. Addressing the issue of body-shaming, she said that a filmmaker once told her she was overweight, when she was only 56kg.
