Shalini Pandey elaborates on her horrifying experience

Shalini Pandey elaborates on her horrifying experience. Shalini Pandey left all stunned with her performance on debut in Vijay Devarakonda's Arjun Reddy under the direction of Sandeep Reddy Vanga.

Shalini speaking to scribes, shared her horrifying experience. She said "It's not that I have worked only with good men in my career, I have also worked with horrid men in my life. I am talking about on-screen, off-screen and within the crew. You just have to have boundaries. I have also faced the most chauvinistic men. That's also the reality."

She revealed "I don't come from a film family. Initially, I didn't have an idea. I am a complete outsider. Having said that, I left my family and I did not have anyone to go back to. Mere pass hota hi nahi tha to ask how one should be in such situations. Now, when I look back, I am glad I was like that. I was naive, but I had hard boundaries. Like, I would snap."

Recollecting her horrifying experience, she said  "Very early in my career, I was doing a South film. The director walks into my van. He doesn't knock and I was changing. He just opened the door and entered. This is a girl who has just done her first film. People usually tell you to be very sweet and not rub people off the wrong way. They be like, 'otherwise, you won't get films'. I have been told all that."

Sharing her reaction,she said "As soon as he entered, I wasn't even thinking. It was just a reaction and I yelled. I absolutely lost my shit. I was 22. Once he left, people told me that 'I shouldn't have yelled'. But, there has to be manners. Just because I am new, you cannot just enter without knocking. You cannot do that to me. And I realised that is something that I carried with me. I would come across as an angry person to people. But I had to do certain things to protect myself."