In 2018, Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan appeared in an interview with director Shoojit Sircar and discussed about gender wage gap in Bollywood.
Bachchan revealed, “There’s a huge debate on gender parity in the film business and in other industries. I’ve worked in nine films with my wife and in eight of those, she’s got paid more than I have. The highest-paid actor in Piku was Deepika.”
He added, “It’s a business and if you are a saleable actor, you get paid accordingly. You can’t be a new actress and demand to be paid the same as Shah Rukh Khan.”
