Prachi Desai was last seen in the Zee5 thriller film ‘Silence..Can You Hear It?’ along with Manoj Bajpayee.
From her casting couch experience to being replaced in films for refusing ‘sexy, raunchy’ scenes, she opened up in a recent chat with Bollywood Bubble.
The Bol Bachchan actress told the portal, “In the film business, people want you to be what only a certain man wants you to be. You are always looked at from a male gaze. And I was always told like, ‘You are not hot enough. You need to be hot. You are too young too cute. I think you need to do a sexy shoot. All you need to do is a sexy song’. And I didn’t understand that. I was like, ‘But for who should I do these sexy shoots? For who should I do these sexy songs?’ Don’t you see what I am doing in my films? That I can act.”
Prachi further revealed how she got to know she was replaced in a film through SOMEONE ELSE’s social media post!
“We found out through somebody’s Facebook post – that it looks like getting into a messy spot. And then we confronted the filmmaker and he said that ‘You know in the next six days we were supposed to start shooting for you. And we have been told that ‘Ohh you know because you are not okay doing a certain song or a certain scene we had to replace you. Now, we are looking to make the role far sexier or raunchier. So yeah that has happened in the past.”
Prachi concluded by saying how none of the filmmakers had the decency to call or message her to inform that she’s been replaced.
“If it’s awkward to call then at least message and inform or say that you can release your dates for something else. At least let them know. You know they say na ‘Waise toh bade mard bante hain but when it comes to working they are not even man enough to send you a text or a call,” she commented to Bollywood Bubble.