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• Isha shares casting

couch experience

Isha Koppikar had recently been trending on
social media recently after she opened up
about her casting couch experience in an • Roshni Walia gets
interview to a popular entertainment portal. injured at shooting
She alleged that a producer asked her to get Actress Roshni Walia
in the good books of actors so she could get recently got injured dur-
good opportunities. Isha admitted that a lot ing the shoot of her show
of ‘top secretaries inappropriately touched’ “Tara from Satara”. She sees
her. She also said that she lost out a lot of injuries as part of any journey.
offers because she didn’t give in to their While shooting for a dance
demands. Recalling her experience, “One sequence, the actress, who
producer told me, ‘This film is happening. essays the lead role of Tara
Call up this actor, you need to be in the good Mane in the show, twisted her
ankle and fell. She had trou-
books of actors.’ So, I called him. He asked ble walking, and her sequence
me to meet him in between his dubbing and was delayed for a couple
something he was doing. He asked who I was of days. “Injuries are a part
coming with and I told him I will be coming of any journey. Dance is an
with my driver. He said, ‘Don’t come with integral part of the show and
anybody.’ I was not 15 or 16 then. I knew what during a sequence, I twisted
was happening. So I told him, ‘I am not free tomorrow, my ankle. I was rushed to
I’ll let you know’.” “I immediately called up the the doctor immediately who
advised me to rest for a few
producer and told him that he should cast me for my days,” Roshni said. “Though I
talent. But then, I can’t be forced into doing all these wanted to shoot as the sched-
things for a role. That is what is intimidating for a lot ule was jam-packed, the team
of people. When a woman says ‘no’ they can’t take it. decided otherwise. My entire
And temporarily, you’re written off. I never ended team have been taking care
up working with that actor,” shesaid. Isha is making of me like a family, they made
a grand comeback in Tamil with Sivakarthikeyan’s me laugh even when I was
upcoming film with director Ravikumar. It is said in pain.” She said herbal oils
helped her in the recupera-
that she will be seen playing an antagonist in the tion process.
science fiction film.

• TESSA MAY MAKE A GREAT SHE-HULK WE LACK ADAA, NAZAAQAT

MARK RUFFALO BACKS HER AHEAD OF MARVEL CHARACTER’S DISNEY+ DEBUT OF MADHUBALA,
Actor Mark Ruffalo, popular as the
superhero Hulk, feels actress Tessa Thomp- MEENA KUMARI’
son would make a great She-Hulk. “Tessa
Thompson’s already Valkyrie but she’d be a
great She-Hulk,” etonline.com quoted
Ruffalo as saying. Ruffalo has played the big
green superhero since 2012. It was at the
D23 Expo in August that Marvel producer
Kevin Feige announced a She-Hulk series
was headed to Disney+, saying, “Bruce
Banner is no longer the only Hulk in the
MCU.” “Jennifer Walters is a Hulk, she’s a
lawyer, and she’s going to star in a show
unlike anything we’ve done before,” Feige Tara Sutaria
• Hulk talks All eyes set on Tessa Thompson had said about the She-Hulk series. (During an interview)

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