‘Spend time with director and do what he says’: ‘Saath Nibhana Saathiya’ actor Sneha Jain on facing casting couch

Sneha Jain, who plays Gehna in Star Plus' show  'Saath Nibhana Saathiya', recently talked out about her experience on the casting couch. In an interview, the performer stated that she was urged to 'compromise' for a project in the South. She was discussing with Etimes about her hardships and rejection in the profession when she mentioned a time when a casting director gave her a position on the condition that she fulfil certain requirements.

Sneha said, “Once I got a call from a South’s casting director, he offered me a film which was about college-going students. He told me that there will be three couples and they all have equally important roles in the films. I sent them my profile and photographs and the next day I got a call from him saying that I will have to travel to Hyderabad to meet the director and the producer.”

The 'Saath Nibhana Saathiya' actor went on to say that she agreed to travel to meet the filmmakers if he would share the project's information with her. She also mentioned that she would be travelling with her mother, which prompted the CD to inform her that she would have to spend the entire day with the director and follow all of his instructions

She said. “Then he told me that there is one condition that I have to compromise with him. I was shocked. He told me that the day I reach Hyderabad, I will be given hotel details where I will meet the director and after I sign the contract papers, he will give me half the amount then and there for which I will be signed. He further told me that the entire day I have to spend with the director and do whatever he says and after I complete 50 percent of the film, the rest I will be paid”.

Sneha stated that she rejected to be a part of the film right away. She said the casting director kept telling her how it wasn’t a big deal and ‘everyone does it.’ He called her again to inform her that the proposal had been accepted. “I yelled at him and asked him to stop calling me as I don’t want to be a part of such a project,” she said.