Mumbai: Bollywood actress Maanvi Gagroo has revealed a sordid casting couch experience that she once had to suffer, involving a web series maker.
The actress said the incident took place about a year ago, according to a report in koimoi.com.
The website said that Maanvi got a call from the producer in question, with an offer for a role in an upcoming web series.
“A year ago, I got a call from a random unknown number. They were like, ‘we’re doing a web series and we wanted to cast you’. They told me the budget and I said, ‘no, this is too less and why are we talking about the budget? Tell me the script. Only if I’m interested and you are interested in roping me, we can discuss about money, dates and all’. So he’s like ‘we’re asking people if they are okay with the budget’. When I said ‘no, it’s less’, he tripled the budget just in his next sentence. He said, ‘I can give you this much also, but aapko ‘compro’ (compromise) karna padega’,” Maanvi said, according to the website report.
The actress said she was hearing the word ‘compro’ (compromise) after seven or eight years.
“Suddenly, I don’t know what triggered me, I started abusing him. Told him ‘aap phone rakho, how dare you? Mai police ko complaint kar rahi hu’. I was really mad because in this pro imposed #MeToo era, I was baffled at how things like this still happen,” koimoi.com quoted Maanvi as saying.
Maanvi appears in the popular Amazon Prime web series “Four More Shots Please”.
Earlier this year she was seen in the film “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan”, and last year she had a starring role in “Ujda Chaman”.
