Rajeev Khandelwal shares his casting couch experience with a top director

The #MeToo movement had shaken the whole country in 2018. Many survivors had come forward and spoken about their experiences fearlessly. Recently, actor Rajeev Khandelwal said that, men are not immune to this movement and that they too have been on the receiving end as he narrated his personal experience.

In an interview with Times of India, Rajeev opened up about his casting couch experience. “The incident gave me flashes of a once-upon-a-time super director who had offered me a movie back then when I did not start doing films,” he said. 

The actor shared that he was called into the filmmaker’s home office to discuss the film. “Next time, he called me from his office to his room, and then he made me sit there and decided not to give me the story, instead asked me to decide whether I want to do the movie based on one song.”

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Rajeev made it clear to the director that he does not agree to do movies without reading the script. But things were not right until the second meeting. The actor said that it became a hilarious situation until then. “I found myself feeling how any woman in my place would have felt. He asked me to go to his room which I refused to. I dropped names and mentioned that I have a girlfriend back then waiting for me so that the guy knows that I am straight,” he recalled.

Rajeev was also threatened about his career but he turned down the two-film deal from the director. “Later, he offered me a two-film deal, saying that he had heard that I was doing a small budget-movie, which was ‘Aamir’, at that time. I replied to him saying that I was happy with my small budget movie. I don’t know what happened to his film when it came out,” he signed off.

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