Originally posted by: akhl
@Jankiraghunath,
I do not watch DKDM, know what is going in it only from written updates, so cannot comment on Mohit's or Sonarika's acting. However, let me comment on the man-woman issue you have pointed out. Can we say that Sonarika was paid less than Mohit simply because of being a woman? Or could there be some other reason? There could be different reasons:-
1. Sonarika is a woman - this is the reason you are saying and I accept this is a possibility.
2. Although Parvati is a Goddess in her own right, the show is primarily focused on Lord Shiv, who is being played by Mohit in the show.
3. Mohit has more experience and/or has better acting skills than Sonarika - I am not claiming it. I am just asking if this could be a possibility. I really do not know how Mohit or Sonarika act.
Suppose there is a show which is primarily based on a woman. Then could it not be possible that in that show the female lead will be paid more than the male lead?
I guess that this is a tad off-topic, but honestly, I don't believe that glass ceilings exist - at least not on the gender front. While in India, discrimination is more blatant than in the West, the chances are that they'd fix the compensations based on market rates. I think that your third reason - Mohit being much more experienced as an actor than Sona - has more to do w/ it. Both of them act really well - often, the performances of both were mind-blowing.
I guess looking at the roles played by both the leading actors - Mohit & Sona, it would seem to one that they deserve equal pay. But the people being compensated here are not Mahadev & Parvati - they are Mohit and Sona, and in such a case, their individual experiences become relevant, and not just the role they were playing. Or else, both would deserve an infinite salary, which is outside anyone's budget.
I don't agree w/ point 2 above - that the show is about Shiva and therefore Parvati is irrelevant. Sure, the CVs have made it that in the shoddy way they covered the Ma Durga stories, as well as requiring Parvati to cry for a lot of the earlier episodes, which was insufferable to watch, but that fault lies w/ the CVs, not w/ Sona. I have a theory that there are a lot of people who hate the way Parvati has been depicted and are blaming Sona for it. I too hate a lot of the episodes where Parvati has been depicted as constantly crying, as well as the Durga & Kali episodes, but I put all the blame on one place - the PH (sorry, Proud Indian). Had the CVs dedicated themselves to showing all of Shiva's family - not just Mahadev & Ganesh, but Parvati & Kartikeya as well, in good light and appropriately, there would have been a lot less criticism of Sona in the show.
Again, getting back to Sona, as her experience increased, she should have pressed for getting incremental raises instead of trying to be at par w/ Mohit straight away. That would have worked. At any rate, envy of a colleagues pay, if true, is not befitting her, regardless of who she plays. She did badly in her previous serial TDSM, but was sublime in DkDM. She should have worked on a linear ramp of her salary that would have brought her to where she wanted to be. (All of this assumes that the reason for her differences w/ the PH being her salary was true)
Edited by .Vrish. - 12 years ago
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