Mumbai porn racket: Model Namrata Sharma Singh alleges casting director offered her Rs 2 lakh for porn shoot

MUMBAI: In another instance of the prevailing porn racket in Mumbai, a model Namrata Sharma Singh today alleged that a casting director from the suburbs approached her two weeks earlier with an offer of a web series.

“Since he told me it was a big budget production and I would be paid very well on an episode basis, I sent him my photographs and other details. After two days of dillydallying he told me that it was for a soft-porn or erotic web series, which would be streamed on an OTT APP. I flatly refused to do such shoots and told him I was not interested,” Namrata said.

“After 2-3 days, yet another casting director approached me with a similar offer. I think both of them were connected or were working and casting for the same project. This time, this chap told me right at the start that it was for a porn or erotic project and I would be required to shoot in the nude along with male co-actors. He offered me Rs 2 lakh per episode. I flatly refused and told him never to call me again,” Namrata told this website.

She claimed that she knows of several models who do such shoots and web series for the money. Some of them get paid Rs 50,000 to Rs 70,000 per episode or per day, which is good money. There are more than 200 models in Mumbai involved in the soft porn and hard core porn business in Mumbai itself, Namrata said.

Last week the Mumbai Police busted yet one more porn film racket from the Charkop area of Kandivali (West) and arrested one person, while three others including a woman are on the run and absconding.

The accused woman in the Charkop case had been arrested in 2021 by the Property Cell of the Mumbai Crime Branch in a similar porn racket and was behind bars for nearly four months before getting bail.