Media needs to stop pitching female actresses BO against each other

Box Office : #Sonam's #Neerja Set To Go Past #Kahaani, #Queen & #MaryKom
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There is not one tweet or article on #Sonam's #Neerja Set To Go Past #BombayVelvet #Besharam (box office)

What happened to equality?
Why are actresses pitched against one another?
Why aren't actresses pitched against actors who debuted around same time?

It is constant actress vs actress and everyone keeps falling for it.

Seriously it's about time this happens. I'm sure men have bigger egos than women it will hit them where it hurts the most. Ranbir and Sonam need to be compared. PC is on a roll proving what she wants to. I want this to change now. When u start comparing actors without gender bias is when gender equality will prevail. BW needs this in abundance right now be it in terms of pay or recognition.

Thank you for this!

Originally posted by: adigaag

Seriously it's about time this happens. I'm sure men have bigger egos than women it will hit them where it hurts the most. Ranbir and Sonam need to be compared. PC is on a roll proving what she wants to. I want this to change now. When u start comparing actors without gender bias is when gender equality will prevail. BW needs this in abundance right now be it in terms of pay or recognition.

Because comparisons are made on the basis of some similarity. Numbers of Khan movies are compared with other Khan movies. Specific genre movies are compared vs. each other. Sequels are compared vs. prequels. Female centric movies are compared with other female centric movies. So it's more about a benchmark for comparison (to provide common ground and thus judge success) rather than making it a woman vs. woman thing.

Originally posted by: adigaag

Seriously it's about time this happens. I'm sure men have bigger egos than women it will hit them where it hurts the most. Ranbir and Sonam need to be compared. PC is on a roll proving what she wants to. I want this to change now. When u start comparing actors without gender bias is when gender equality will prevail. BW needs this in abundance right now be it in terms of pay or recognition.

It does hurt actresses the most. I've seen few articles or tweets on actors comparison such as Ranbir's BO vs Ranveer's BO or Varun's BO vs Sidharth's BO by media.

For male actors there seems to be room for everyone not just top three, but with female actors media only highlights #1 #2 female actor of the year, but other female actresses are dismissed.

Originally posted by: kabeeraspeaking

Because comparisons are made on the basis of some similarity. Numbers of Khan movies are compared with other Khan movies. Specific genre movies are compared vs. each other. Sequels are compared vs. prequels. Female centric movies are compared with other female centric movies. So it's more about a benchmark for comparison (to provide common ground and thus judge success) rather than making it a woman vs. woman thing.

Also, pitching Sonam's best movie against Ranbir's worst isn't really how comparisons are supposed to work unless we just want to make any wild comparison like 'what can run better: fish or bird?' See above, there has to be some starting similarity in the two things you're comparing. The 'correct' comparison would be to assess Sonam's best against Ranbir's best or Sonam's most recent with Ranbir's most recent if you want to see how people who debuted around the same time have/are doing and that too is simplifying it a lot.

I can understand Neerja being pitched against Kahaani, but I do not see Neerja being pitched against Piku or even a Queen, yet media does it using 'female centric' box office, which I do not see as a good thing. As it is commonly assumed female centric movies do not do as well at the box office. I don't see why a female centric movie can't be pitched against a male centric movie.

Like vidya said it serves a section of the industry.

Your post came at right time 😲😲😲

@TM: Have you noted that Neerja is not being compared against TWMR or Hamari Adhuri Kahani or Katti Batti or Bajirao Mastani or even Barfi even though all these movies star Sonam's female contemporaries in lead roles? Because these movies are not female-centric, something which is almost being treated as a genre in BW since Kahaani release. Ranbir/Ranveer/Varun/Sid don't have any such 'genre' to work in that they can be compared within. Otherwise, they do get ranked/compared on successes/failure and have their numbers (most especially openings) compared too.