Makdee actress Shweta Basu Prasad has had a difficult year. She was arrested in September on prostitution charges and spent the last two months in a shelter for women. She has finally come back home and is ready to talk about her ordeal.
We hear that the shelter gave Shweta enough time to think things over and she found solace in poetry. She has even penned a short poem which beautifully describes her nightmarish experience. Titled ‘The Cliff’, the poem runs something like this –
“Thunderstruck, all alone, I stand here at the edge of the cliff. I crawled the dense forest to get here The tribes and wild and strays They say ‘Jump, jump from the cliff.’ As I look down, naked, cold and trembling, The ferocious sea I see with its mouth open It’s ready to swallow me. The noises are unbearable the place so dark. As I decided to jump in the sea I saw the North Star. I remembered how it shone above my blessed home where singing hugging and laughter awaited me I said, ‘Wait I want to go home.’ The voices murmured, ‘End the journey.’ ‘Jump! Jump you ugly thing.’ I smiled to them and pitied them, They don’t know I have wings.”
Talking about the poem she said, “It should not seem as if I was suicidal or something. I chose to fly and rise above it all, you know.”
Shweta clarified her story and revealed that she was in Hyderabad for an awards funtion and became a victim of circumstances. She admitted that there was a raid and the police forced her to reveal names of Tollywood actresses involved in prostitution rackets but she feels that she does not have the right to comment on others. Shewta said that she has been happily involved in a number of work projects and is ready to put the entire incident behind her. Presently she is working on a documentary on Hindustani classical music and is very focused on her career.
Here’s hoping Shweta Basu Prasad gets back on her feet soon.
