says krishna monala a young hyderabadi model who encountered the casting couch in bollywood krishna monala is not your average twentysomethingyearold he claims to be a nerd but we beg to differ after all he is one of the few hyderabadis to be on the cover of a health magazine in conversation with hyderabad times he tells us the story i grew up in alabama in the us when i came back three years ago i weighed about 88 kgs said krishna who was asked to lose weight when he tried to enter the modelling world after working out three hours a day he got the desired results and got a fresh portfolio made its only then that the opportunity came his way post the cover shoot krishna started getting many calls from producers in mumbai but his excitement soon turned to horror when he had to encounter the dark side of bollywood when i met these producers in mumbai they asked me to do things that i just wasnt willing and ready to so in simple words you were asked to sleep with them yes they told me stories about how others as in big stars have gone through with the same thing and look where they are now but i couldnt get myself to start my career like that a shocked krishna confesses i thought it would require hard work i had dance moves and monologues prepared and this happened i knew the casting couch existed but what startled me was the fact that they are so blatant about it bollywood is a really dark place ask him about how he got bitten by the acting bug and he says i was the only indian kid in my high school in alabama i needed a role model and i really like hrithik roshan who i consider the only actor in bollywood i wanted to be like him and dance like him ever since i can remember i have always wanted to be in the movies and soon he went to an acting school in new york after the course were introduced to film agents but they always take on people with experience says krishna so what now well i have to start somewhere i didnt want to start in mumbai doing things i didnt like so ive decided to try my luck in tollywood i did get three offers but two of them were bgrade films while the other was a stereotypical love story one of the movies was actually called lover boy exclaims krishna who is waiting for the right script to come by meanwhile he is all set to take on the role of an assistant director for director nandini reddy shes my mothers friend and when we got in touch with her she asked me to be one of the assistant directors for her forthcoming flick with actor siddarth he says when he is not rehearsing monologues or working out at the gym krishna