Heroines of dirty pictures

                                                  (Pictures are used for illustrative purpose only)

No one can deny this. There exist casting couches in the Indian film industry. If you have ever been a bit close to the glamour villa, you must have seen it, experienced it. You do not need to watch a ‘Dirty Picture’ or ‘Heroine’ to know the story.

Girls, generally hailing from lower and upper middle classes, will go up to any extend to get noticed, to get name, fame and moolah and the creative souls with carnal urges make the best of it. They blatantly ask for sexual favours and the wannabe starlets are more than willing to do anything for a role.

As far as Bollywood is concerned, this is nothing new. The practice has been there since the early stage of moviemaking in the country, 1951.

It’s plain quid pro quo. You are an aspiring actress and searching for a role and then submit yourself to us, gratify the lechers in us. The girls when realize that there is no way out, prefer to have sex with them and grab the dream role.

Though many people deny this, casting couch has been prevalent all through. Don’t you remember reports of Madhur Bhandarkar, Aman Varma, Onir and Shakti Kapoor in the news for asking sexual favour for roles. These guys are just people who are not as smart as the bigger ones who sleep with every heroine they cast.

Actress Payal Rohatgi kicked up a storm when she alleged that director Dibakar Banerjee asked her to take her top off when she auditioned for a role for his upcoming film Shanghai.
 I, while working an entertainment correspondent for a leading daily, personally came across many such incidents.  Most of those girls are big stars today, continuing to be the heroines of dirty pictures.