Rajshri Deshpande, who plays Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s wife in the Netflix show Sacred Games, has done a nude scene in it and while she says she was not apprehensive while shooting the scene, she has been taken aback by some of the responses that she has been receiving ever since.
In a recent interview to a tabloid, the actor said her love scenes have made it to porn websites and that she was getting messages saying she is a porn star!
The tabloid quoted her as saying, “In Sacred Games too, we have a lovemaking scene. It was a big thing for me to open up my blouse, but I did it. But little did I know that my pictures from that scene will start circulating on WhatsApp. Collages have been made saying: Hot Indian Actress With Mangalsutra! And, the scene has made way to porn sites. Worse still, I am getting messages saying that I am a porn star. What do I do but ignore? Some of the comments are terribly cheap. I believe in Anurag Kashyap, he had told me about the scene beforehand and even said that he won’t go ahead if I am uncomfortable.”
“I don’t feel shy when it comes to work. Besides, cinema is my passion. How does one draw the line between titillation and genuine requirement of the script? “Titillation is dancing in micro-minis and bras. My scene in Sacred Games was pure love. My character was opening herself in front of a man for the first time. The hatred in her for him had transformed into love,” she added.
While revealing that her husband had no issues with the nudity, she said “He supports me. He said, ‘You are giving your soul, and if that requires you to go naked, do it if you believe in it, you don’t need any permission. I am in a happy space.”