who first appeared in Bollywood with the movie Fiza after acting in several South Indian films, has shared a terrifying casting couch experience she had when she was 18. In addition to her roles in movies like Darna Mana Hai, Pinjar, LOC Kargil, Krishna Cottage, and Don, Isha also performed in popular dance numbers such as “Ishq Samundar” from Kaante and “Khallas” from Company. As the actress turns a year older today, we take a look at the time she opened up about casting couch in the industry.
ADVERTISEMENT Isha Koppikar on her casting couch experience Isha Koppikar, who started her career in Hindi films with Fiza, talked about her casting couch experience from her early days in the industry. She shared the details of this traumatic incident with Siddharth Kannan, “I was 18 when a secretary and an actor approached me for casting couch. They told me that to get work, you have to be ‘friendly' with actors.
I am very friendly, but what does ‘friendly' mean? I am so friendly that Ekta Kapoor once told me to have some attitude.” Isha Koppikar also shared a story about a time when a top actor asked her to meet him alone, “When I was 23, one actor asked me to meet him alone, without my driver or anyone else, because there were rumours about him being involved with other actresses. He said, ‘There are already controversies about me, and the staff spreads rumours.
' But I refused and told him that I couldn't come alone. He was an A-list actor from the Hindi film in.