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NDTV
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Surveen Chawla On Disturbing Casting Couch Experience: "He Leaned In To Kiss Me, And This Was After I Got Married"
New Delhi: Surveen Chawla is one of the few Bollywood actresses who has always been vocal about the dark side of the profession, be it unrealistic beauty standards or casting couch. Recently on The Male Feminist podcast, the actress once again spoke up about yet another disturbing casting couch experience which she faced after she got married. She spoke about meeting a director at his Mumbai office, who well aware that she was newly married, leaned in to allegedly kiss her after the meeting. Expressing her shock at his audacity, Surveen said she had to push him away and walk off. Recalling a separate incident, the actor shared how a National Award-winning South film director asked a mutual acquaintance to tell Surveen that the filmmaker wanted her to sleep with him during the course of a film shoot. What Surveen shared she has been subjected to many casting couch experiences, highlighting particularly one incident that happened after she got married. Surveen told The Male Feminist, "I will tell you a tale about Mumbai's Veera Desai Road only. After the meeting at his office cabin, the director came to see me off at the gate, and this was after I got married. The strange thing was that we talked about this in the meeting also, he asked me how it was going and what my husband did, and it was just us speaking inside his cabin because he had a big office. So, when I came to the door to say bye, he leaned towards me trying to kiss me, and I had to push him back. I was startled and asked him what he was doing, and I just walked off." Another occurrence was when a South film director relayed it to her through a mutual acquaintance that he wanted her to sleep with him during a film shoot. In an earlier conversation with RJ Siddharth Kanan, Surveen got candid about the body-shaming trend in the film business. She said, "It's like they make it their job to make you feel insecure. Your weight, your waist size, your chest size - everything is questioned." Surveen Chawla's Filmography Before predominantly working in Hindi and Punjabi films, Surveen started her journey with the TV shows Kahin To Hoga in 2003. She made her Bollywood debut with Hate Story 2 in 2014. Her Kannada debut was Paramesha Panwala in 2008. She has also worked in the Tamil film Raju Maharaju and Telugu title Moondru Per Moondru Kadhal. Her Punjabi film credits include Dharti and Hero 'Naam Yaad Rakhi'. Some of her most noteworthy projects include Parched, Hum Tum Shabana, Ugly, Sacred Games and s short film titled Chhuri. Surveen Chawla's Upcoming Projects Surveen's latest release is Criminal Justice season 4, also starring Pankaj Tripathi. She is now gearing up for Raina Naidu season 2, which will premiere on June 13, 2025. In A Nutshell Surveen put up a brave front recently when she spoke at length about her casting couch and body-shaming experiences in the film industry. She highlighted an incident with a director that left her stunned when he tried to kiss her despite knowing she was married.
Hindustan Times
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Surveen Chawla says actors need to gain weight for South cinema: 'I was told you are too thin, nothing would bounce'
Actor Surveen Chawla started her acting journey with television shows like Kahin To Hoga and Kaajjal, and later earned recognition for her performances in Punjabi and Hindi cinema. In a recent interview with Hauterrfly, Surveen spoke about losing roles due to the 'TV actor' tag and recalled being asked to gain weight to work in South cinema. (Also Read: Surveen Chawla: Discrimination because of gender is everywhere, come together as a community to being a change) Surveen discussed the label of 'television actor' and recalled losing films because of it. She remembered people telling her 'you are exposed' and said, 'I was told, don't do this for some time. You should not be seen. You go down South, you need to put on weight; you come back here (to Hindi cinema), you need to lose weight.' When asked if actors really need to put on weight to work in South cinema, Surveen said, 'Yes, I was told you are too thin, slim because you won't have bosoms. Kuch hilega nahi (Nothing will jiggle), nothing will bounce. Now it's done a little more sophisticatedly. In my time, they were not so sophisticated. They told me to my face, so I gave it back to their face.' Surveen featured in popular television shows like Kasautii Zindagii Kay, Kahin To Hoga, and Kaajjal before making her Bollywood debut with the film Hum Tum Shabana in 2011. Over the years, she made her mark in Punjabi and Hindi cinema with films like Taur Mittran Di, Saadi Love Story, Singh vs Kaur, Hate Story 2, Parched, and more. Apart from this, she has also been part of several popular web series such as Sacred Games, Decoupled, and Rana Naidu. She was most recently seen in the series Criminal Justice 4. The show also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Asha Negi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Mita Vashisht, and Zeeshan Ayyub, among others, in key roles. Directed by Rohan Sippy and produced by Applause Entertainment in association with BBC Studios India, the series is available to watch on JioHotstar.
Indian Express
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Surveen Chawla says a director tried to kiss her moments after discussing her husband and marriage: ‘We were in his cabin…'
Several members of the film industry have spoken about having unpleasant casting couch experiences. In a new interview, actor Surveen Chawla opened up about an incident where a director tried to kiss her, even though he knew that she was recently married. In an exclusive interview with Hauterrfly, Surveen opened up about the incident, but admitted that she has had similar experiences multiple times. She added, 'I will tell you a tale about Mumbai's Veera Desai Road only. After the meeting at his office cabin, he came to see me off at the gate, and this was after I got married. And the strange thing was that we talked about this in the meeting also, he asked me how it was going and what my husband did, and it was just us speaking inside his cabin because he had a big office,' she said. She continued, 'So, when I came to the door to say bye, he leaned towards me trying to kiss, and I had to push him back. I was startled and asked him what he was doing, and I just walked off.' The actor had shared in an earlier interview how a director from the South industry wanted her to sleep with him. Surveen said that he communicated his intention via a third person, as he wasn't fluent in Hindi or English. A post shared by Surveen Chawla (@surveenchawla) Surveen had said that certain people 'get you in this space where you question yourself.' The actor then recalled the time when she was trying to make a transition from television to films, and during her first film meeting in Mumbai, her 'appearance, weight and waist size, chest size' was questioned. Surveen made her acting debut with the television soap opera Kahin To Hoga in 2003. She was a part of TV shows like Kasautii Zindagi Kay, Kaajjal and 24. She made her film debut in 2008 with Kannada film Paramesha Panwala, and was later seen in Bollywood in films like Hum Tum Shabana, Ugly, Hate Story 2, Parched and short film Chhuri. She had been a part of several prominent Punjabi movies too. Surveen made her web series debut with Sacred Games. A post shared by Netflix India (@netflix_in) She can currently be seen in Criminal Justice season 4, alongside Pankaj Tripathi. She is also a part of Rana Naidu Season 2, which will be out on Netflix on June 13.
