Pay disparity has always been a prevalent issue in Bollywood. Yes, since years there have been discussions and debates on this issue. However, things haven’t changed much. Even today, heroines get lesser payment as compared to that of heroes.
While actors have decided to remain silent on this issue, there are certain actresses who have time and again spoken about this.
Off late, Madhuri Dixit had opened up about how she had got paid more than Salman Khan in “Hum Aapke Hain Kaun”. But this rarely happens and that too in case of very few actresses!
Even SRK had decided to give out his opinion on the issue. Recently, in an interview SRK stated
“I feel every woman in this industry works three times harder than the men and gets ten times lesser the money. But not in my company. I can’t enforce that in the films that I act in and don’t produce — but the ones that I produce, there’s equal pay. Plus, their name appears before mine in the title credits,”
Moreover he says that just discussions and debates on this isn’t going to sort out the issue.
He adds
“I don’t talk about the change. I am the change. In my films, the girl’s name always comes before mine. On my film’s set, the girl is always in a higher position than men – nobody can call them ‘tu’; it’s always ‘aap’,”
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