Jasmin Bhasin on #Metoo

Jasmin Bhasin talks about how once a filmmaker asked her to strip down, to judge if she had a ‘bikini body’.Incident took place 5 years ago when she came across a Gujarati film where director asked her ‘What will you do to become an actress and to what extent can you go?’, Jasmin released that there is something wrong with the director and replied ‘What more I can do, I left my city and home and I am living here and struggling’.

It was then that the director demanded that the actor take off her clothes so that he could see how she looked in a bikini. “In cases like these, you know you can’t fight, so I told him I am not in the best possible shape to flaunt a two piece and the brief given to me was that the girl’s character is very different and I am not supposed to wear a bikini. I immediately left saying that my agency will get back to him and I will meet him again,”

Strength is what helps in these situations, says Jasmin. “That sexual harassment exists can’t be denied, but one needs to be strong. Girls should know how to work in their own conditions and not trust anyone, unknown, so easily. It important to be courageous. This is the right time to take a stand and I am happy this is happening,” she says.