Hate Story 2 is creating a lot of buzz courtesy its bold content and melodious music however, the film's leading lady Surveen Chawla suffered a temporary nervous breakdown while shooting a sequence for the film, which involved sexual violence.
Surveen says,''I was completely into my character and when I had to perform a violent abusive sexual scene with Sushant Singh I was feeling completely violated and abused as though the experience was actually happening to me. I began to relate to women who go through sexual abuse and the trauma it causes. I felt the pain agony and the helplessness of a woman subjected to sexual subjugation. I was weeping from inside and outside while performing these scenes. These scenes were very demanding.''
Apparently, Surveen took a while to come out of her character. ''Coming out of the character was not easy. I was hurt and battered, both physically and emotionally. Now I completely empathize with women who go through sexual abuse. I'd like to shake women, who take this kind of violence, by their shoulders and tell them to stand up for their right to exist with dignity. If a woman has to endure this treatment from a man she is better off alone," she further adds.
Sushant Singh also accepts that shooting such scenes was not easy. ''There were a lot of violent and intimate scenes too. I've one especially violent lovemaking scene which went off pretty smoothly thanks to my co-star Surveen Chawla," says Sushant.
He further adds ''As an actor violence is nothing new to me. But the raw passion with which my character enjoys it, is what makes him so menacing. It seems my character treats violence as sex and sex as violence.''
Buzz has it that Sushant Singh's Hate Story 2 character is based on Pakistani politician Ghulam Musatafa Khar, who had apparently abused his wife, author Tehmina Durrani.