“WORKING IN BOLLYWOOD IS WORSE THAN BEING A PROSTITUTE”

Maushmi Udeshi tells JYOTHI VENKATESH

At a time when the ‘Me Too’ movement has caught up in a really big way and more and more victimized women started boldly speaking against their oppressors, actress Maushmi Udeshi , who has been a part of the late Nitin Bali’s music video Neele Neele Ambar Ki and Bhaagam Bhaag, has an entirely different viewpoint to tell.

Says Udeshi, “It is senseless for all actresses, or for that matter the female directors to say they were raped or molested in our Industry.

I reiterate that I am saying it is senseless only because in Bollywood nobody rapes, but blatant sexual favors are openly demanded and if we say yes to them that too before the shoot/work starts we may get the job or may not too.

These women who happily accepted such sexual exploitation randomly with many big filmmakers are saying that they were raped or molested which is bullshit especially as it was consensual sex”.

Maushmi Udeshi continues. “I never said yes to such explicit and demeaning demands so kept saying no to good work, main lead roles in big films & have always been vocal about the casting couch which so badly exists in our film industry, in all my interviews.

So I have done very selective work with only those makers who are good human beings who respect real talent and women”.

“These so called women happily accepted these demands and agreed to be sex slaves to these powerful film industry men who often wield the creative control and take advantage of their positions that they were in.

Now why are these women making such a big hue and cry about it? Please don’t say you were raped, say that you accepted such conditions to get big breaks.

Most of these women didn’t even deserve getting what they got and they got to that position just because they agreed to be sex slaves to these big film makers so why doing all this drama about being raped now?

Pausig for a breath, Maushmi continues, with unabated breath.”I always used to think that why all women don’t think like me and have the guts to say ‘No’ to such unscrupulous exploitation.

If all women were as strong as I am, this Industry would be a nicer place to be in where women would get cast because they are talented and fit the role perfectly to the and not because they merely sleep around, without any hesitation and no questions asked, with gay abandon.

It would be healthy competition and not dirty rat race because if not a single female is ready to give in to such exploitation how on this earth will these men take advantage of women”?

Maushmi continues. “I’d say that since 8 out of 10 women are ready to accept such crude sexual demands, that men get encouraged to exploit more and more women and really don’t bother about talent or great screen presence, and all they see is which female is ready to be the biggest sex fiend or for that matter slave without asking questions and without asking for money”.

The bindaas babe Maushmi signs off with a brutal candor. “Working in Bollywood, especially in big films is worst than being a prostitute as most of these silly starlets sleep for piddly shit shoot money.

What is worst as well as dangerous as a precedent is the fact that it starts many months before the film actually goes on the floors and also starts shooting and this goes on till the film is released.

I have heard actresses say we have to have goodwill in this Industry to bag big roles in big films so sleeping randomly with the top film makers is the only way to make goodwill in this Industry to keep getting work and it is seen that most of these females who accept work with such conditions behind closed doors, behave sati savitris on screen and they don’t agree to do much skin show in front of the camera.

Let me clarify that these sexual favors are asked only from females who are outsiders & are not star kids and these favors are not asked even from rich females who come in with loads of money to get themselves launched along with contracts”.

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