Deepal Shaw's sexy onscreen image came haunting for the sultry siren when the actor was roughed up by three men in the middle of the night in Mumbai.

It so happened that her car's tyre got punctured and she had to stop and make a call to her brother for help. Suddenly three men approached her and on the pretext of help came too close to her.

Says Deepal: "One of them asked me if I had a problem with the car. They were getting too close for comfort and almost breathing down my face. I immediately got into my car. I was still on the line with my brother and asked him to come down and get a few people with him."

Meanwhile, the three men passed obscene remarks on Deepal till her brother arrived at the scene and then she returned home safely.

"In those few seconds, I really regretted being a woman. My nightmare ended when my brother came," says the starlet who made her Bollywood debut in the role of a pornstar in Mohit Suri's movie Kalyug .