This top actress regrets working with Mithun Chakraborty, her rape scene was shot without permission, she filed a case against…, the film then…
Ayesha Jhulka was one of the most prominent Bollywood actresses in the 1990s. She made her debut opposite Salman Khan in Kurbaan, and later starred in several hits including, Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992), Khiladi (1992), and Meherbaan (1993) and more. Ayesha collaborated with a lot of top filmmakers and one of them was Prakash Mehra, who signed her for Dalal. Directed by Partho Ghosh, the film starred Mithun Chakraborty in a lead role.
Things were going fine until she realised that Partho and Prakash had shot a rape scene using her body double without her knowledge. While talking about the scandalised incident in her recent interview, Ayesha told Hindi Rush, “I wasn’t informed of the scene they shot using a body double. I wasn’t invited to the trial show in which the movie was being shown. A journalist, who was watching the film at that screening, later called me and asked, ‘Do you know about this sequence in the film because we are very surprised that how did you allow this?’ Everyone knew that it was a body double in that scene.”
However, when Ayesha called Prakash and confirmed whether they shot something like this without her consent, the producer conveniently lied to her on call. She later saw the scene during the press show and was left ‘angry’ and ‘cheated’ on. She further said, “I was shocked and upset. I called Prakash Mehra ji and he told me that there’s no such scene in the film. I believed him then because the trial that I had seen had no such scene. The same journalist called me again after a couple of days and asked me if I had talked to the makers. I told him about the conversation I had with Mehra ji. He told me that there’s another trial planned for the press after two days and asked me to come and see it. So, I went to that trial show uninvited and saw that scene myself. I was very angry and felt cheated. The next day itself, I filed a case in the IMPPA (Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association).”
In early 2000s, Ayesha stepped away from acting as she wasn’t getting the roles she desired for. Her last theatrical release was in the 2018 film Genius. She has also starred in two web shows Hush Hush and Happy Family: Conditions Apply, released on Prime Video in 2022 and 2023. She was recently seen in the reality show Celebrity MasterChef this year.
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