Mumbai: Actress Maanvi Gagroo who has played a prominent role in the Amazon Prime web series Four More Shots Please has revealed a sordid casting couch experience that she once had to suffer, involving a web series maker.
Maanvi Gagroo said the incident took place about a year ago, according to a report in ‘indiaglitz.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’,” Maanvi has been quoted as saying.
“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 you’ll have to make a compromise’,” Maanvi Gagroo added.
The actress then said she would call the police and added: “These words ‘compro’, ‘compromise’ – I was hearing it after seven or eight years. Suddenly, I don’t know what triggered me, I started abusing him (the caller). I told him ‘How dare you? I’m going to file a complaint with the police’. I was really mad because in this pro-imposed #MeToo era, I was baffled how things like this still happen,” Maanvi informed. “He hung up and thankfully never called again.”
Earlier in the year Maanvi was seen in the film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, and last year she had a starring role in Ujda Chaman.
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