Vidya Balan On Her Appalling Casting Couch Experience: “This Director Kept Insisting On Meeting Me In A Room”
Vidya Balan shares her horrific casting couch experience in Chennai and all the struggles she faced in the film industry
Bollywood actress Vidya Balan is currently riding high on the success of her latest film Mission Mangal that also stars Akshay Kumar, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Sharman Joshi, Nithya Menen, Kirti Kulhari and others. Vidya Balan has come a long way right from her first film Parineeta in 2005, to now Mission Mangal. With a career span of almost 15 years in Bollywood, it sure wasn’t easy making it this far and has faced her own share of struggles. Now, the actress has opened up about her shocking casting couch experience and also other experiences that brought down her confidence.
Vidya Balan recounted her casting couch experience to Pinkvilla in an interview and said that a director in Chennai kept insisting on meeting her in a room. She said, "One day I remember I was in Chennai and this director came to meet me. I said let's sit in the coffee shop and he kept insisting that he wants to talk to me and that we should go to the room. I left the door of my room open and he left within five minutes. This incident suddenly struck me today when I'm talking about this." She also struggled with body shaming and said that it deeply affected her. "Someone wrote that 'Dress like this, she has no business of getting out, she should stay indoors'. That had affected me so much that for the longest time, I would get dreams of it and get really angry. Today, I don't let the noise get to me," she revealed.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Vidya Balan delivered an amazing performance in Mission Mangal and was lauded by the audience. Mission Mangal, which also stars Akshay Kumar, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, and others, has maintained a strong foothold at the box- office and has crossed Rs. 160 crore already.
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