A Director wanted to see my Cleavage: Surveen Chawla shares Casting Couch experience

Right from body-shaming to experiencing casting couch, Surveen Chawla faced it all. She revealed that she had to face the casting couch not once or twice but five times in her filmy career. Read her full story below...

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Apart from the starry manifestation of Bollywood, the tinsel town has its own dims and lows. The showbiz provides the stars with fame and acknowledgment but also has them mired in problems. The actors have to often face the evils of bullying, trolling and in fact harassment as well in the industry. And the horrific event of casting couch remains to be one of the most commonly faced problems by female actors in the entertainment business. 

A well-known name in the Television industry, Surveen Chawla later paved her way into films. She featured in films like Hate Story 2, Welcome Back, Parched among others. However, it was no smooth ride for Surveen, as she faced many obstacles on her way. 

Right from body-shaming to experiencing casting couch, she’s seen it all. In a recent chai with Pinkvilla, she revealed that she had to face the casting couch not once or twice but five times in her filmy career - thrice down South and twice here in Bollywood. 

"A director wanted to see how my cleavage looked. Another director wanted to see how my thighs looked," Surveen reveals. She also stated that there was a time when she was called overweight. "I went to give this audition and the person told me, 'You are overweight'. I was just 56 kilos and I thought the person needed glasses," she remarked.

Cruising from Television to Films was a drastic change for Surveen, and she reveals that she was even called out for doing TV. "Yes, there was a time when people told me you are overexposed because of television. For some time, I tried to hide it from producers and tell them I did TV only for a year but I realized later that 'Why am I doing this?' Isn't it going to be easier for a team to get someone who already knows how to do their lines?" she concluded. 

Surveen was last seen in a Netflix originals web show Sacred Games 2, which also starred Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui. She received critical acclaim for her performance as Jojo in the thriller series.

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