Suchitra Krishnamoorthi Reveals Her Horrific Casting Couch Experience, ‘Unhone Hotel Mein Bulaya..’

Suchitra Krishnamoorthi is an Indian film actress who rose to fame for her role in Shah Rukh Khan starrer Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa in 1994. She has also worked in many other Hindi films. The actress was recently seen in the series Bravehearts. Suchitra Krishnamoorthi quit acting in films after she got married to Shekhar Kapur, a filmmaker.

Later, her married broke up and she ended up divorcing Shekhar Kapur on the grounds of infidelity. The actress accused her husband of cheating on her but also clarified that marriages don’t break for being unfaithful but for disrespect.

In an interview with Bollywood Thikana, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi recently opened up and disclosed her casting couch experience that left her teary-eyed

She recalled her horrifying casting couch experience and revealed,

“I met this director and he asked me, ‘Who are you close to, mom or dad?’ We were meeting in a hotel and in those days, a lot of meetings happened in hotels. It was quite common. I said, ‘I am very close to my father.’” “He said, ‘Very nice, then call your father and tell him that I will drop you back home tomorrow morning.”

This left the actress dumbfounded as this was something she did not expect, she further added,

“At first, I didn’t understand what he was saying. It takes you a while to process. Then I was like it’s 4-5 pm right now. What am I going to do with him till tomorrow morning? Then it started striking me what he is probably intending. I was almost on the verge of tears. I picked up all my stuff and I said I’m just coming and I ran. But this used to happen a lot. people have horror stories of casting couch, this is very mild.”

Later she also added that she found out that this was very common back then and lots of such meetings were held in hotel rooms

In the same interview, she also opened up about her marriage and said,

“My parents were against this marriage as Shekhar was my mother’s age at that time and he was divorced and from the film industry. My mother sat at my feet and begged me not to go forward with this marriage. They asked me to have an affair and get it out of my head. But I was sure that this is what I want and it is something that I brought on myself.”