Ileana made her big Bollywood debut with the movie “Barfi” and impressed the critics with her acting skills. She is currently busy in promoting her movie “Raid” along with Ajay Devgn. During the promotions, we’ve seen her making sensational comments about casting couch recently. Now she opens up about the harassment she had faced during her childhood days.
The actress remembers the incident which happened while she was residing in Goa with her family and says those three months were the toughest phase in her life.
“Those were the three months through which I went through hell. I was just 15 years old then. I used to take the local bus for my commute. There was a boy who had harassed me for a period of three months. It happened after I rejected the boy’s proposal and so he would scream my name in the bus and embarrass me in public.”
Though Ileana warned him several times he would not listen to her and do the same thing over and over again. She got irritated and finally confessed about the whole incident to her mother.Her mother warned him to stay away from her daughter but he didn’t listen to her either. They got fed up and complained against him in the Police Station.
“I was fed up going through this harassment every day. My mother met him and asked him to quit it. She even warned him if he wouldn’t stop we would go to the cops. He thought we wouldn’t. He was really surprised when we actually approached the police. The police caught hold of him and beat him up in front of me. He even peed in his pants. He realized his mistake and promised that he won’t do it ever again.”
Ileana started her movie career in the South Indian film industry and was listed in one of the top actresses. She was at the peaks of her career when she moved to Bollywood industry but her dreams were shattered when her films didn’t do well in terms of collections. She got her first success with the movie “Rustom” and her character as a Parsi woman was widely acclaimed.
Currently, her movie “Raid” with Ajay Devgn directed by Raj Kumar Gupta. The story revolves around a fearless IT officer who raids in the house of a powerful man. The story is based on a real incident in the 80’s.