Kangana Ranaut has claimed that she was the primary actress to combat for equal pay and claimed that many actresses do movies free of charge.
Her feedback have been in response to a video of Priyanka Chopra speaking about pay parity in Bollywood.
Within the video, Priyanka revealed that she “by no means had pay parity in Bollywood”, even after 60 movies.
She additionally revealed that she was paid about 10% of what the male actor would receives a commission.
Sharing her perspective on the matter, Kangana took to her Instagram Story and wrote:
“It’s true ladies earlier than me merely submitted to those patriarchal norms.
“I used to be the primary one to combat for pay parity and probably the most disgusting factor that I confronted whereas doing this was that my contemporaries provided to work free of charge on the identical roles that I used to be negotiating for.
“I can say with confidence most A-listers (ladies) do movies free of charge together with providing different favours as a result of they worry roles will go to the precise folks after which shrewdly launch articles that they’re highest paid ha ha…”
The outspoken actress went on to say that she is the one actress in Bollywood who receives equal pay to her male co-stars.
She added: “Within the movie business everybody is aware of that I solely receives a commission like male actors and nobody else and so they have nobody else responsible at the least now…”
Kangana shared the display with Priyanka within the 2008 movie Trend. Each actresses acquired Nationwide Movie Awards for his or her performances.
Beforehand, Kangana reacted to Priyanka’s claims that she was being “cornered” within the business.
Kangana blamed Karan Johar and tweeted:
“That is what @priyankachopra has to say about Bollywood, folks ganged up on her, bullied her and chased her out of the movie business a self-made girl was made to go away India.
“Everybody is aware of Karan Johar had banned her.”
She additionally claimed Karan bullied her.
Referring to Karan as “Chacha Chaudhary”, Kangana Ranaut wrote:
“Right here was a time when Chacha Chaudhary together with the elite nepo mafia would insult and bully me on nationwide tv as a result of I couldn’t converse English…
“In the present day I realised after seeing his Hindi, up to now I’ve rectified your Hindi, see what occurs henceforth.”
On the work entrance, Kangana was final seen in Dhaakad, which had a poor field workplace efficiency.
She is going to subsequent be seen in Emergency, which she has additionally directed.
