Navina Bole, known for her stint in shows like Ishqbaaz, Mile Jab Hum Tum and more, in a recent interview opened up on her meeting with director Sajid Khan and levied some shocking allegations on him.
In a conversation with Subhojit Ghosh for his YouTube channel, Navina, opening up about experiencing ‘casting couch’ in the industry revealed how Sajid called her home and asked her to ‘take off her clothes.’ Speaking to the portal, the Ishqbaaz fame says, “There was a terrible terrible man who I would never want to meet in my life called Sajid Khan, he came after so many of us after gladrags and he just really pushed the envelope when it came to disrespecting women.”
Recalling his meeting with the director, Navina reveals being called by him when he was going to make ‘Heyy Baby.’ She says, “You know I was really excited when he called me and then he literally said why don’t you just get off your clothes and sit in your lingerie I need to see how comfortable you are. I am talking about 2004 and 2006 when I did gladrags.”
It was not in his office, It turned out to be his house and thankfully I had someone waiting for me downstairs. I did not know how to reply. He said, ‘why, you wore a bikini on stage, so what is the problem, it’s all ‘Tits and ass’ in his language. You can just calm and sit here comfortably and just sit here, be yourself.’ I did not know what to say, I said, ‘Listen I really need to go home and get into a bikini if that is what you really want to see but I cannot be sitting here and strip right now.’ Somehow I managed to get out of that place and he must have called me atleast 50 times, asking me, why am I not coming, where have I reached.”
Navina Bole: “Sajid Khan Asked Me To Take Off My Clothes & Be In My Bikini So That…!” - YouTube
Navina then reveals that Sajid then called her again after a year when she was performing for ‘Mrs.India’ “He had called me again then and asked me, ‘What do you do, you should come see me for a role.’ And I said this guy must be hitting on so many women that he does not even remember that one year ago he had called me to his place and he has already hit on me so badly.”
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