Sanaya Irani, famously known for her role as Khushi Kumari Gupta in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon and Gunjan Bhushan in Miley Jab Hum Tum, recently recalled a casting couch incident. The actress, who claims to have been typecast because of her complexion, opened up about an event where a big Bollywood director called her and was extremely rude to her. Recalling another incident, the actress revealed how a director in South told her, “We need fuller people”.
In an interview with Hautterfly, Sanaya talked about many aspects of her life–from her childhood to her initial years in acting. When asked whether she ever faced any casting couch experience, the actress had quite a few stories to share.
Recalling an incident in South, the actress said, “Long ago, a person from the South wanted to meet me for a film. At that point, I didn’t want to do films. But, this person was hellbent in meeting me. So I just went, and after meeting, he was like ‘we need a little fuller person’. And I was like ‘then I am not the fuller person.'”
She added, “A lot of times, I feel that people meet girls in the industry to meet them, to suss it out–is she the kind who slept or hasn’t slept.”
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Soon she recalled another incident where she had to call a big Bollywood director after his secretary’s request. “There was a lot of misunderstanding. I was told I was auditioning for a music video but this was a film. I told the secretary, ‘I won’t do it’. She was like, ‘Please sir will get angry, just speak to him once’.”
“I made a call to a him after his secretary asked me to call him. When I did, he said, I am entering into a meeting, call me after half an hour. So I called him after 45 minutes thinking I will give him some time. And when I called, he was like what’s the time? I just blurted out the time. And he was like what time did I ask you to call me? I was like you asked me to call at 11:30 and again he was like what’s the time? Now this time, I was like is he really throwing attitude at me? Because I am not buying this. So I said, ‘Is this what we are talking about or are we moving forward? I just gave you a little bit grace that I shouldn’t be calling exactly in half an hour'”, she added.
“So he was like, ‘I am making this big film, there are many big heroes in it and you will have to wear a bikini.’ And I was like, ‘And my character is?’ and he was like ‘are you okay wearing a bikini?’ He was getting a little rude to me and I hung up on him”, concluded Sanaya.
Sanaya, 41, made her acting debut in 2006 with a cameo appearance in Aamir Khan and Kajol-starrer Fanaa.
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