Surveen Chawla reveals a shocking casting couch experience where a director tried to kiss her in his cabin right after talking about her husband and marriage—highlighting exploitation in the film industry.In casting couch experience from early in her career. She shared that a director tried to kiss her inside his cabin just moments after discussing her personal life, including her husband and marriage. The incident left her shocked and uncomfortable.
Several members of the film industry have spoken about having unpleasant casting couch experiences. In a new interview, actor Surveen Chawla opened up about an incident where a director tried to kiss her, even though he knew that she was recently married. In an exclusive interview with Hauterrfly, Surveen opened up about the incident, but admitted that she has had similar experiences multiple times. She added, “I will tell you a tale about Mumbai’s Veera Desai Road only. After the meeting at his office cabin, he came to see me off at the gate, and this was after I got married. And the strange thing was that we talked about this in the meeting also, he asked me how it was going and what my husband did, and it was just us speaking inside his cabin because he had a big office,” she said.
She continued, “So, when I came to the door to say bye, he leaned towards me trying to kiss, and I had to push him back. I was startled and asked him what he was doing, and I just walked off.”
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The actor had shared in an earlier interview how a director from the South industry wanted her to sleep with him. Surveen said that he communicated his intention via a third person, as he wasn’t fluent in Hindi or English.
Surveen had said that certain people “get you in this space where you question yourself.” The actor then recalled the time when she was trying to make a transition from television to films, and during her first film meeting in Mumbai, her ‘appearance, weight and waist size, chest size’ was questioned.
Surveen made her acting debut with the television soap opera Kahin To Hoga in 2003. She was a part of TV shows like Kasautii Zindagi Kay, Kaajjal and 24. She made her film debut in 2008 with Kannada film Paramesha Panwala, and was later seen in Bollywood in films like Hum Tum Shabana, Ugly, Hate Story 2, Parched and short film Chhuri. She had been a part of several prominent Punjabi movies too. Surveen made her web series debut with Sacred Games.
She can currently be seen in Criminal Justice season 4, alongside Pankaj Tripathi. She is also a part of Rana Naidu Season 2, which will be out on Netflix on June 13.
