Actress Maanvi Gagroo Reveals Producer Approached Her For Sexual Favor In Return Of Big Remuneration
Maanvi Gagroo Reveals Her Casting Couch Experience
Updated : April 09, 2020 07:27 PM IST
Actress Maanvi Gagroo is steadily climbing the ladders of success in Bollywood. The actress will soon be seen on the web series Four More Shots Please 2. Recently during a media interaction, the actress opened up about a producer making suggestive advances at her on the pretext of increasing her remuneration. Yes, Maanvi Gagroo has experienced casting couch and she spoke at length about it and has also bashed the producer during the media interaction.
In a recent interaction with Koimoi.com the actress said a year ago she was called from an unknown number and was offered a web series for an amount which was too less according to for her. However, she asked for the script and date and thought of asking about the budget towards the end. She thought to herself, she liked the script and the makers too are willing to rope in her for the same. However, she was taken aback when the person said, If she was ready to compromise, he would increase her remuneration three times.
Now, Maanvi wasn’t quite expecting this and quite obviously she was shell-shocked. She further stated, the practices which she had heard of being prevalent in the industry some 7-8 ago, still very much in motion, despite the #MeToo movement. However, she chose to be brave and not turn a blind eye towards it. She abused him and also warned him about a police complaint.
The actress has been quoted as saying, “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, 'nai nai yaar, 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 money, dates and all.' So he’s like 'we’re asking people if they are okay with the budget.' When I said 'nahi, 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.”
“These words 'compro', 'compromise' I was hearing after 7, 8 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',” she added further.
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