New Delhi: Bollywood’s Khallas girl Isha Koppikar recently made some shocking revelations about the dark truth of casting couch in the glamour industry. In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, the actress recalled two such horrifying incidents.
Isha Koppikar on the casting couch
Esha said, “I was 18 when a secretary and an actor approached me for casting couch. They told me that to get work, I 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 an incident when an A-list actor asked to meet him alone. “When I was 23, an actor asked me to meet him alone without my driver or anyone else, as there were rumours about him having affairs with other actresses. He said, ‘There are already controversies about me, and the staff spread rumours.’ But I refused and told him that I cannot come alone. He was an A-list actor from the Hindi film industry.”
Isha Koppikar’s film career
Isha made her film debut in 1998 with the Telugu film ‘Chandralekha’. The same year she starred in the Tamil film ‘Kadhal Kavitha’, for which she also received the Filmfare Best Female Debut Award. After acting in a few Tamil, Telugu and Kannada language films, Isha made her Bollywood debut in 2000 with the Karisma Kapoor-Hrithik Roshan starrer ‘Fiza’.
The film was directed by Khalid Mohammed. After this, he acted in films like Rahul, Pyar Ishq Aur Mohabbat, Aamdi Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya in 2001.
But it was in 2002 that Vivek Oberoi debuted in Ram Gopal Varma’s film ‘Company’, in which Isha’s item song ‘Khallas’ became a chartbuster and she became a rising popular star. Soon, she became the ‘Khallas’ girl we know today.
Isha has acted in many films like Kaante, Pinjar, Dil Ka Rishta, Qayamat: City Under Threat, Darna Mana Hai, LOC Kargil, Rudraksh, Krishna Cottage, Kya Kool Hain Hum, Ek Vivaah…Aisa Bhi.
He was last seen in the Kannada film ‘Kavacha’.
