Throwback: When Shashi Kapoor exposed the dark side of Bollywood – casting couch

Throwback: When Shashi Kapoor exposed the dark side of Bollywood – casting couch

Must Read! When Shashi Kapoor exposed the dark side of the Hindi Film industry saying that actors like Dharmendra and Sanjay Khan had to face the casting couch by senior actresses
In an old interview Shashi Kapoor revealed how he was lucky enough to escape the casting couch, which was not termed so at the time. However there are actors like Sanjay Khan and Dharmendra who might have experienced it.
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Throwback: When Shashi Kapoor exposed the dark side of Bollywood – casting couch

Unarguably there deep dark hidden secrets of the Hindi film industry that have often been exposed but, sometimes they turn out to be a fiction of people’s imagination.

Nevertheless, even the established actors have not had the guts to speak about it.
That’s precisely what the late Shashi Kapoor did in a throwback interview when he exposed the scary casting couch of the industry in the midst of his time in Bollywood and Hollywood too.

In an old interview Shashi Kapoor pointed out how he was lucky enough to escape the casting couch, which was not termed so at the time. However there are actors like Sanjay Khan and Dharmendra who might have experienced it. In the interview he quoted that he was unwordly enough to wonder why a young man would have to go through the casting couch until Shashi Kapoor pointed out heroes like Sanjay Khan and Dharmendra. Even they were blackmailed by senior actresses when they were newcomers.

Shashi went on to add that he was very lucky enough not to succumb to the demands by the casting couch demands that were not made for him. The memoir further added that it wasn’t on working with him as much as it was on not making any casting couch demands on him that had really touched Shashi Kapoor.

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