Kirti Kulhari recalls casting couch incident with a south director: 'Aisa Hota hai?'

Kirti Kulhari known for many projects like 'Khichdi', 'Shaitan', 'Pink', 'Four More Shots Please' among others recently opened up on a casting couch experience which she faced. The actress admitted that before she actually faced it, she had only heard of such things and never knew that it existed.

The actress said that she was actually surprised because she didn't know the way people can actually ask something like this. She added in an interview with Bollywood Bubble, "I remember this person finished the meeting and said something and I reconfirmed like. Is this the moment that he is going to ask me about that thing that I have been hearing about forever I asked him, “Um do you mean casting couch?” and he’s like “Yeah” and in my head I almost had a giggle inside because I was like oh fuck like, itna suna hai iske baare me, aise hota hai? Is this how they ask it, is this how they do it? Matlab, of course, I said no, but in my head, I was just amused by it you know.”

She continued, “I was very surprised. I was not offended by it ki arre aise kaise mujhse puch liya, idk maine itna hawa suna hua tha casting couch ka. And the fact that it happened and it happened in such a funny, casual way toh mujhe uska seriousness register hi nahi hua because it wasn’t serious. In the sense, that someone asked because the whole thing is prevalent,. It’s everywhere, aapko yeh karna padta hai to get something, which is absolute bullshit. And, when that happened in the moment, I just like, I’m like of course not that’s not an option but, okay at least I have a story to tell ki aisa mere saath hua that.”

In this interview, she also said that actors are treated differently on the set based on their position. She revealed that in Shaitan, Kalki Koechlin received more attention as she was well-known, while in Pink, Taapsee Pannu was given importance due to her rising fame. By Mission Mangal, Kirti had accepted this reality and stopped taking it personally. 'Mission Mangal' starred Akshay Kumar, Taapsee, Vidya Balan, Nithya Menen as well.


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