Surveen Chawla Recounts 5 Casting Couch Experiences: Filmmakers Wanted To See My Cleavage, Thighs
Actor Surveen Chawla recently opened up about her casting couch experience. She revealed that she has faced five such experiences - three in the South film industry and two in Bollywood.
Actor
Surveen
Chawla
recently
opened
up
about
her
casting
couch
experience.
The
Sacred
Games'
actor
revealed
that
she
has
faced
five
such
experiences
-
three
in
the
South
film
industry
and
two
in
Bollywood.
After
making
her
TV
debut
with
Ekta
Kapoor's
Kahiin
To
Hoga,
Surveen
faced
difficult
challenges
in
her
career.
Speaking
to
Pinkvilla
in
an
interview,
she
said,
"Then
came
south
and
that
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."
Recounting
another
horrifying
incident,
Surveen
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
had
to
do
various
things
-
a
monologue
or
saying
something
impromptu.
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
and
said
'no,
thank
you'."
She
continued,
"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."
Surveen
has
faced
such
incidents
until
recently.
She
said,
"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."
Surveen
was
last
seen
in
the
Emmy
nominated
Netflix
original
series,
Sacred
Games,
playing
the
character
of
Jojo
Mascarenas.
She
was
lauded
for
her
performance
in
the
web
series.