I was seeing an interview on a Gujarati Channel. The person being interviewed was Aruna Irani. It was sort of a general interview. But when she was asked about "casting couch", her reply was very good. I liked it a lot.
She said there is Casting Couch everywhere and its exists from medieval times. Its not that this thing has started just few years back. And its worlds rule, the one who is powerful exploits the others. Its not that only men do casting couch even women do it. The one who has power will do it. Its simple rule of the nature.
And one offers for you to sleep with him/her its up to you to decide. If success and fame is more important to you then anything else in world then you go ahead and sleep with that person. But if you feel that you can gain success by hard work then you can refuse to sleep. There is lot of difference between casting couch and rape. Casting Couch is where the person agrees for sexual or anyother relationship with other person. The affected person wasnt in anyway forced to do it. If it was done forcefully then its rape.
And there are lots and lots of women who make sex and their own body a big step in leaping ahead in career. And if the person with whom you have slept doesnt fulfill you dreams then there is no point in crying foul about it. He/She didnt force you, you agreed on your own and went ahead with it.
Its not that there is casting couch only in the film industry, its in all walks of life. It happens everywhere.
So its upto a persons character whether he / she becomes a victim of casting couch. This doesnt mean that the person forcing the weaker person for any sexual advances to be good or giving them a clean cheat. They are also 100% faulty in this. Sometimes there are situations where because of unavoidable circumstances a person is forced into it.
So all in all it depends upon a persons character and situation of his life.
Look what Shekhar Suman has to say about casting couch ot Hindustan Times.
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