Spotlight on Payal

A couple of days back, we came to know that Dibakar Banerjee has dropped Payal from his upcoming flick ‘Shanghai.’ And then came Payal’s outburst.Payal claimed that Dibakar made 'unsavoury' comments about her weight and insisted she lift her top to show him her belly because he wanted to “check” how much weight she had put on. She claimed the incident happened at her home recently.Payal said she first interacted with Dibakar after sending him a text message requesting a professional meeting. As they became friends, Payal claimed, she also started seeking his advice on personal matters.Dibakar was like my mentor, says Payal, explaining why the director was invited to her house.Payal’s allegations has once more raised the lid off the Pandora ’s Box about the casting couch issues in Bollywood. (Agencies)For Payal this is not the first time that she has been in the eye of a controversy. A beauty pageant winner who shot to fame after her stormy affair with Rahul Mahajan, Payal is known more for her off screen antics than her performance.Dibakar has gone on record to deny the allegations altogether. Here is what he had to say “I was visiting a friend at a studio and she – Payal, said she wanted to talk. I agreed to pick her up from her residence. I was there for less than five minutes. The talk of her weight cropped up much later once we had reached the studio. When the subject was discussed, there were several others present. I spoke professionally, saying that she would need to shed weight if she wanted the role. There was no demand from anyone that she lift her top,” he said.
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