1983-2011 Posted February 2, 2012 Posted February 2, 2012 The casting couch, casting couch syndrome or casting couch mentality is a term which involves the trading of sexual favors by an aspirant, apprentice employee, or subordinate to a superior, in return for entry into an occupation, or for other career advancement within an organization. A typical "Casting couch" case occurred in India in 2004, when a female actress Ms. Preeti Jain filed a police complaint alleging that film director Mr. Madhur Bhandarkar had sexually exploited her for many years and made false promises of casting her in a lead role in his next film. She stated that she was never given any role in any of his films. According to her, Bhandarkar repeatedly had sex with Jain from 1999 to 2004 at Natraj Apartment at Yari Road, Hotel Seaside at Juhu and at Bhandarkar's friend's (Akbar) flat at Mount Mary road, Bandra. In 2005 India TV's India's Most Wanted, an investigative TV show, caught Indian Idol host Aman Verma and longtime Bollywood actor Shakti Kapoor in a "sting" operation, and accused them of abusing their positions to force women to have sex with them. They even produced video evidence of Kapoor making advances on a planted girl, in which Kapoor tells the girl that superstars Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukerji and Preity Zinta slept with people such as Subhash Ghai, Yash Chopra and Yash Johar to get where they were. Verma, Kapoor and most of the Bollywood industry have defended themselves, calling India TV's claims unfounded and sensational, and claim that the video footage of Kapoor is misleading. In 2009 Indian actress Suchitra Krishnamoorthi reported an incident in her blog where she narrowly escaped sexual advances from a producer while casting for a film role.
daryl1985 Posted February 2, 2012 Posted February 2, 2012 Someone who works at the same company as me has a relative who is trying to make it in Bollywood. Her sister has been in situations where directors have offered to give her a role if she slept with them.
NeutralCat Posted February 2, 2012 Posted February 2, 2012 Of course it happens in India, do Indian people really believe their country is above this?
punjabi_khota Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
Old guy Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 There are no stupid questions' date=' only stupid people.[/quote'] :hysterical:
1983-2011 Posted February 3, 2012 Author Posted February 3, 2012 1sQdabwCZnY&feature=watch_response_rev
akshayxyz Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 yes, in fact even males are also asked to c®ouch for casting.
NeutralCat Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Male producers asking male actors? A lot of Indian jobs etc is still dominated by men, not much equality in Indian society.
akshayxyz Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 Male producers asking male actors? A lot of Indian jobs etc is still dominated by men' date= not much equality in Indian society. Why are you so surprised? Besides, bollywood is not just film making, fashion industry is also very closely related and considered as an entry point to Bollywood. And its anybody's guess, who dominate fashion industry.
jusarrived Posted February 3, 2012 Posted February 3, 2012 my friends gurl was offered a role opposite Nagarjuna , subject to shes ok with sleeping with him ..whats surprising was how direct his assistant was with her . The stupid girl said no , else I would have been friends with a top telegu actress now :mad Apparently , except for the Kapoor girls every other actress had to compromise in bollywood.
chainsmoker1985 Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 my friends gurl was offered a role opposite Nagarjuna , subject to shes ok with sleeping with him ..whats surprising was how direct his assistant was with her . The stupid girl said no , else I would have been friends with a top telegu actress now :mad Apparently , except for the Kapoor girls every other actress had to compromise in bollywood. Yea, they don't compromise. They do it with their own will :winky:
achilles Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 Yep. We know what happened with Hrithik and Kareena, with the latter trying to impose herself on the former in a particular manner.
jf1gp_1 Posted February 4, 2012 Posted February 4, 2012 I dont think casting couch exists in bollywood, after all we are over a billion because we believe in abstinence and not because we have horny men running all over the place
chainsmoker1985 Posted February 5, 2012 Posted February 5, 2012 I dont think casting couch exists in bollywood' date=' after all we are over a billion because we believe in abstinence and not because we have horny men running all over the place[/quote'] Mate, bollywood is all under the table, over the bed matters :winky: Almost 98% actresses have to go through that. Everyone knows about it.
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