Bollywood actor Taapsee Pannu is speaking about equal pay in the industry.
Speaking to a media outlet in a recent interview, Taapsee revealed how audiences are also to blame to an extent for the pay disparity.
“If a female actor asks more, she is termed difficult and problematic and if a man asks more it’s a mark of his success. Difference is, the men who started with me earn 3-5 times more than what I do. And the gap keeps increasing as we go in higher star category.”
"Even now we struggle with budgets. Everyone hears that since it’s a female-driven film budgets will have to be slashed and that’s because our returns are always unfair in comparison to our male counterparts. And audience is a big reason behind that,” she concluded.
Taapsee is currently enjoying the success of her movie Haseen Dillruba on Netflix.
