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How Sonam Kapoor is dealing with Bollywood's gender pay gap

How Sonam Kapoor is dealing with Bollywood's gender pay gap

Sonam Kapoor was offered an exciting project recently, but the pay was poor. Here's what she did
11 Dec, 2017

As the debate about the gender pay gap in film industries rages on, Sonam Kapoor is having her say through her actions.

Times of India reports that Sonam Kapoor was offered a film but the pay was too poor for her to consider the otherwise exciting project. This occured despite Sonam's film Neerja's impressive performance in the box office last year.

She said, "Recently I was offered a project, which I was excited for, but the money being paid was sh-t. I made a call and said, this is very disrespectful. There was shock on the other side. I told them, you put me in a position after being 10 years in the industry, after giving the most profitable film Neerja a year ago, so please tell me why is it that this is what you decided to give me."

Also read: How wide is the gender-based wage gap in the Pakistani film industry?

The production company's reasons, Sonam elaborated, hardly justified their actions.

“They were like ‘Our last film with so and so star didn’t do well so we don’t have that much money.’ I was like, because of this xyz star whose film didn’t do well, the one person whose film actually did very well you want to underpay me to pay this ‘star’ more? I told them to move on and get someone else as frankly it was very disheartening."

We're glad Sonam decided to negotiate pay instead of benignly accepting the terms presented to her. It's when actors make demands for better wages that the industry norms will start to change.

Comments

Chungaizee Dec 11, 2017 08:57pm
Not really a good actor. Should consider herself lucky that at least there is offer of pay.
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Saba Dec 11, 2017 09:12pm
Deepika got paid double the times than ranveer and shahid in Padmawati. Ashwariya got more than Hero in her new movie. Sonam is neither of both actresses, nor she was ever a good actress to get paid like others.
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Ali S Dec 11, 2017 11:20pm
Talent has nothing to do with pay in Bollywood anyway. All these Kapoors are only in the biz because of family ties
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Al Dec 12, 2017 09:30am
She's not that good an actress and certainly not in the category of deepika and others. Lucky she's even offered the project.
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N abidi Dec 13, 2017 08:02am
What is the salary do sonam kapoor productions pays the artists they hire!
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Simba Dec 13, 2017 12:11pm
She should be thankful for getting paid for a job that involves dancing around trees and romancing fifty something actors. And that is true for celebrities across the globe.
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Farah (New York) Dec 14, 2017 12:42am
Flop actress.
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