Many Congratulations to Ram for topping the actor's chart in earnings. Mind you that's just half the month ;-) He still does other shows based on producer and Industry requests, advertisements and not to mention his movies. The man is at the golden peak of his career just like he did during Kasam se and raking in the moolah! Kudos!!
Sakshi is one of the top paid actress in the industry and kudos to her! I think Mona, Shweta and the league are paid the similar amounts due to their talent and experience in the Industry. And she does advertisements which should add to the current amount shown.
Let's not bring in women and pay scale here. I think that's absurd Atleast in the TV industry. It's a brand value and recall apart from talent paid industry. I doubt OM got paid as much as Parvati during KGGK! It's just depending on the production house contracts they had at that time. Usually TV is a woman based Industry and except for the rare Ram, Ronit etc, the men usually get a raw deal.
As for as acting chops by the forum critics, unfortunately we don't seem to be the determining factor of pay scale. And I agree it's unfair the female lead needs to deliver such lengthy dialogues while the male lead had to emote and walks awy with the top most salary. Not fair eh? But again there must be a very valid reason by EK who isn't gonna throw away a 1.25 lacs per day to Ram ;-) Someyhing that's beyond the naked eye of the biased audience who have their favorites
Oh before I forget about the other article quoted, I think in a month both RK and ST make similar amount. Apparently this article quoted Ram gives 15 days and ST gives 25 days! So EK might have mentioned the overall pay being similar :-)
The article that I posted (TOI interview) mentions nothing about the number of days both actors shoot.. All Ekta Kapoor said was that they get paid the same. So since pay is based on daily earnings, if Sakshi shoots for more days, contrary to what you claim, she actually takes home a larger pay check than Ram, NOT less. Bottom line is that for Ekta, Ram and Sakshi are both equal . I know you RKR girls never lose an opportunity to come an defend your hero but facts are facts.