Actress Swara Bhaskar who is presently shooting with Kareena
Kapoor Khan and Sonam Kapoor for Veere Di Wedding made appalling disclosures in
an interview with a tabloid. Swara spoke about how a director harassed her when
she was new in Bollywood.
“Of course. I’ve been propositioned by men who were in a
position to cast me. I lost a few roles because I didn’t give in. It made me
vulnerable, nervous. Some people even stopped responding to my messages because
they knew I would not give in. Being an articulate, educated girl they sensed
that I would not take things lying down," Swara revealed.
"There have been catcalls during shoots and eve-teasing
on one of my sets. I’ve been groped by a mob during promotions and during a
56-day outdoor at a remote location, when I was still fairly new, the director
harassed me with texts and dinner invites. He stalked me during the day and
called me through the night. I was asked to go to his hotel room on the pretext
of discussing the scene and would find him drinking. During the first week
itself, he started talking about love and sex and one night, arrived in my
room, drunk, and asked to be hugged. It was scary!," she further added.
"I was young and alone. I would switch off the lights
after pack-up and remove my make up in the dark so he would think I was asleep
and stop calling me,” Swara said. She also spoke about that the best way for an
actress to deal with such kind of harassment. "Lose the part but don’t get
on the couch. It’s not a feminist choice and it’s certainly not a liberating
choice. It’s like giving a bribe and that is succumbing to a wrong," Swara
revealed.
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