Mumbai, March 13: Actor Shakti Kapoor, shown on a television channel seeking sexual favours from a reporter who pretended to on the lookout for a role, claimed today that the girl had been calling him in a provocative manner for the past few months.

She also threatened that she would commit suicide if he did not meet her, Kapoor said after the channel made public the ?sting operation?, portraying it as evidence of the casting couch in Bollywood.

Kapoor said the girl made him ?drink a lot of alcohol as a result of which the incident happened?.