Bollywood Pay Disparity

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  Lara Dutta On Pay Gap In Bollywood: "Most Women Still Get Paid One-Tenth Of What The Actor Gets"

  Lara Dutta is also rumoured to be playing Kaikeyi in Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana

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  Priyanka Chopra Jonas Talks About Lack Of Pay Parity In Bollywood, Says Many Women Still Deal With That

  In the interview, the actor also discussed India's fair-skin obsession and recalled being body-shamed because of her complexion.

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  Kajol Excuses Pay Gap By Saying 'An Actress Can't Make 500 Crore Like A Salman Khan Film'

  Kajol said: Actresses over the years have been integral part in the success of a film, but after all, it's a business"

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  Talks On Pay Disparity Headed In Positive Direction: Sonakshi

  Although far from equalising, talks on pay disparity in Bollywood are moving forward

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  Kalki Koechlin: You're Paid More Than a Man if You're Priyanka Chopra

  "Bollywood is as patriarchal as our society. I once met a producer who asked me about my age and I said, 30. To this, he replied, 'Don't worry, you still have five years left.' Another producer showed me the exact spot on my face where I needed to get a botox"

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  Sonam Kapoor Has No New Films After Neerja

  "No, I haven't signed anything and it's stressing me out that I haven't," said Sonam. When asked about pay disparity, she said: "It is slowly changing, but it's a far way off despite the numbers that Neerja has done and despite the numbers my films have done"

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  Sonakshi Sinha Says Pay Disparity in Bollywood 'Still Exists'

  "Women are quite vocal about their rights nowadays. And I want the change not only in film industry. Be it sports or business or in any other profession, women should be paid an equal amount. I believe that this gap will be fulfilled soon," Sonakshi Sinha said

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  Juhi Chawla Wasn't Upset With Pay Disparity, Says 'We Just Accepted It'

  When asked if it is high time, the pay gap should be reduced, Juhi Chawla said, "Even if I feel that way, I don't see it going away easily. It won't go overnight. The only difference is that today's actors earn more than what we used to get and similarly the future actors will get even more"

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  Kajol Says It's a 'Wonderful Phase' to be in Bollywood

  "Our film industry is in a wonderful phase, where we are at right now. As actors, we have a world in front of us. Male, female, hero, heroine and what we used to call character actors, everybody has the chance to have a film that centers around them with nobody taking away anything from anyone. Right now, it's a nice place to be an actor"

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  Farhan Akhtar Supports Actresses' Demand of Wage System

  "I read recently somewhere that there are many female actors, who said they would want to work on a wage system that works even for men and I completely support them. If I want to cast them and they say that to me, then that's what I'll give them. But I can only speak about myself in relation to casting for a film"

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  Sonam Kapoor: Don't Work For Those Who Pay You Less

  "My father is the best person I know because he encourages my sister and me. He treats me as a strong capable individual and for that he is a feminist. He believes that these girls are more than capable of doing a lot of things which a lot of people are not," said Sonam

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  Aamir Khan on FTII, Pay Disparity in Bollywood and Dangal

  Aamir has gained over 20kgs for his role in Dangal."Mahavir Singh Phogat (his character in Dangal) trains his daughters to become wrestlers. We are always stuck in the mentality of giving preference to sons. The film is about giving equal opportunities to daughters," said Aamir

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  Katrina Kaif on Why It's OK to Pay Some Actors More Than Others

  Katrina, who has worked with actors like as Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar, said "If you are paying (a lot to) an actor who is going to give you a 90 per cent guarantee of recovering say Rs 150 crore, then I can understand why they are paying them that much"

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  Madhur Bhandarkar: Deepika, Priyanka, Katrina Changing Pay Disparity

  Though actresses have proved themselves by delivering hit films but a disparity is still present between them and their male counterparts, as far as the pay scale is concerned. "It is a male dominated industry, be it Hollywood or Bollywood, it happens everywhere," said Madhur Bhandarkar

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  Sonam Kapoor on Wage Equality: Do the Math, Doesn't Make Sense

  Patricia Arquette became a mouthpiece of sorts for women in the entertainment industry the world over, when she talked about wage equality during her Oscar speech