This actress gained immense popularity and recognition from the early 2000s. She started her journey as a child actor and was part of a very popular Hindi television show. The actress also led a movie for which she won a National Award and has worked in several South Indian films. The actress we are talking about has shared the screen space with Varun Dhawan and Pankaj Tripathi as well. Recently, she opened up about facing severe bullying on the sets of a Telugu film. Who are we talking about? Keep reading to find out…
The actress is Shweta Basu Prasad, who was a part of the popular Hindi TV show Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii and did several movies including Makdee and Iqbal. For Makdee, Shweta even bagged a National Award in the Best Child Artist category. Prasad has been a part of many Tamil and Telugu movies. The actress shared her experience of being bullied on a Telugu movie set, and revealed, “There was this one Telugu film I was doing and that entire crew every day would remind me of my height. Because my hero was quite tall, I’m 5’2, and my actor was 5’11 or almost 6 feet tall.”
In her interview with Bollywood Bubble, Shweta Basu Prasad opened up about how no one called out her co-star for not even speaking Telugu well. “He would mess up every scene, give retakes; he, being Telugu, can’t speak the language. Even I couldn’t but I was managing. And I’m like, you’re telling me about something that I have no control over. It’s something that genetically aya hain (it’s genetic); you manage. It’s the only set where I was really bullied, very bad,” the actress revealed.
On the personal front, Shweta was married to Rohit Mittal in 2018, but the couple got divorced in 2019. In 2014, the actress was arrested at a hotel in Hyderabad and was detained on the alleged charges of prostitution. Prasad was also sent to a rescue home for two months. In 2014, all the charges against her were withdrawn by the Metropolitan Sessions Court. Later, in a statement, the Jubilee actress revealed that she had no involvement in the the crime and was at the hotel for an event organised by the Santosham Film Awards team, which were being held at the time.
