EXCLUSIVE: Ankita Lokhande’s SHOCKING confession on facing casting couch twice: It was a big actor

Ankita Lokhande needs no special introduction. With her acting skills and performance, she has carved a special place in the industry. Apart from being a phenomenal actress, Ankita is known for her strength and spirit. Despite going through a lot of thick and thin, Ankita has stood up for herself, and proved to be an inspiration for me. In an exclusive chat with Bollywood Bubble, Ankita Lokhande opened up about facing the casting couch twice.

Sharing her ordeal, Ankita said, “I feel I am a very strong personality. I don’t let anybody look at me also like that. I’m like ‘Don’t you dare to do that.’ Yes, I have faced it once, no, I think I have faced it twice. Bohot pehele jab me choti thi, mujhe South film k liye bulaya gaya tha. (Long ago, when I was small and immature, I was called for a South movie). He called me into his room and said, ‘Ankita we want to ask you something.’ I was like, ‘Yes.’ He then said. ‘Aapko compromise karna padega.’ I was so smart, I was alone in that room and was 19 or 20 years old, and asked him, ‘Which type of compromise does your producer want? Do I have to go for parties or dinners?”

“I did not want it to go there, where he tells me, ‘You have to sleep with the producer.’ And the moment he said, mene uski band baja di thi. I told him, ‘I think your producer wants, a girl to sleep with, not a very talented girl to work with.’ And I left from there. He then apologized and said he will try to take me to his film. But I said, ‘If you try and take me in also, I’m not interested in your film,” she added.

However, this was not it. When Ankita Lokhande jumped back into films after gaining success in the Television industry, she had to fce casting couch again. “When I got back again into films, I felt it again, just shaking hands with that person. I don’t want to take names, he was a big actor. I got those vibes, and I quickly got my hands away from him. I knew it, ab mera yaahan nahi hoga, because it is a give and take thing. I understood and I left from there because it was not for me,” Ankita said in her shocking confession.

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“I think from my childhood, I was like that, strong. From the time I heard those statements about me, somebody asking me to sleep with him, it just broke me. Mujhe aisa laga mein kaisi industry me hoon jahan log mujhe bol sakte hai ke aapko sona padega. As a girl I felt so f**king angry, but I felt like me iski band baja doon, “Ankita Lokhande concluded on her casting couch story.

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