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Swara Bhasker Reveals Director's Obscene Demands: "Can I Hug You?"
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News18•01-10-2026, 21:16
Swara Bhasker Reveals Director's Obscene Demands: "Can I Hug You?"
- •Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker shared a shocking experience from her early career days.
- •After 'Tanu Weds Manu,' a director asked her to rehearse a romantic scene alone, making her uncomfortable.
- •Swara revealed the director knocked on her room door late at night and asked to hug her, which she refused.
- •The director initially told her that a director should fall in love with his actress.
- •Swara, then 20, felt she couldn't retaliate against the director for fear of being removed from the film.
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Swara Bhasker revealed that after the success of 'Tanu Weds Manu', a director made her uncomfortable by showing excessive interest, asking her to rehearse a romantic scene alone, and knocking on her guesthouse room door at night asking to hug her.
Swara Bhasker stated that she was twenty years old at the time of the incident and was trying to figure out how to protect herself from people.
When the director knocked on her door at night and asked if he could hug her, Swara directly refused and told him that he could not hug her.
