No gender difference in Bollywood: Farah Khan

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Ace director-choreographer Farah Khan doesn't believe that Bollywood is discriminating against women.

She further expressed, "It's not like if you are a boy, you will have to do more work or if you are a girl, less work will be given to you; in fact, girls within the industry are more hard-working and have surpassed the boys."


Talking about her views on gender bias, the 52-year-old further added, "More so in the field of technicians, say if you are a director, you have to do the same work whether you are a man or a woman. The work requires similar skill set and knowledge, so I do not understand when someone tells me I am a woman director. I am a director! I would like to stress that we need more women DOPs in the industry, and that should be encouraged."

" Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of ' Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander'".

She remembered her financial struggles during the formative years, along with performing dance gigs in the city with her troupe. During the session, Farah Khan constantly stressed on the importance of honing people skills and crisis management as new filmmakers.

"Filmmaking is all about people management", she advised. Working on a film set is about dealing with multiple crises on a daily basis, so one needs to be a quick decision maker.

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Ah ! Farah you gadah, it's not about the hard work, skill set or knowledge. It's about how a woman is less paid or given less credit. How Deepika who has a bigger hit record was paid less for Tamasha than recent flop king Ranbir or Varun was given more credit for the success of BKD than Alia. Unless that vanishes, there is a gender difference.
That is why I love Kangy ! What would BW be without her.
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Cannot fully agree with her
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When it comes to Farah and her husband there are many interpretations to this statement.
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Originally posted by: Justmoi

Ah ! Farah you gadah, it's not about the hard work, skill set or knowledge. It's about how a woman is less paid or given less credit. How Deepika who has a bigger hit record was paid less for Tamasha than recent flop king Ranbir or Varun was given more credit for the success of BKD than Alia. Unless that vanishes, there is a gender difference.

That is why I love Kangy ! What would BW be without her.


what are u talking ? payment is based on ur capacity to bring in the audience. a male actor is the one who brings majority of the audience to the theatre hence the disparity.
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Log articles padhte bhi hai.. ya bina padhe hi finger exercise shuru kar dete hai?
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Originally posted by: Justmoi

Ah ! Farah you gadah, it's not about the hard work, skill set or knowledge. It's about how a woman is less paid or given less credit. How Deepika who has a bigger hit record was paid less for Tamasha than recent flop king Ranbir or Varun was given more credit for the success of BKD than Alia. Unless that vanishes, there is a gender difference.

That is why I love Kangy ! What would BW be without her.

exactly how on earth did deepika got paid like 3 crore and ranbir 38 crore matter of fact he is the reason film flop, over budget because of his payment and she has better hit ratio box office figure when he is becoming the king of cancelled shows. Even flop imran got paid more than kangana. Kang is arrogant but love how the woman should speaks her mind and says what she deserves to earn
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Reading the articles is a nice thing to do
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I thought she was speaking against labels and not about payment. How director is head of unit irrespective of sex. 😛 😆
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what are u talking ? payment is based on ur capacity to bring in the audience. a male actor is the one who brings majority of the audience to the theatre hence the disparity.


Really ? Then explain to me why the audience is not flocking to see Ranbir and yet is paid in obscene amounts when he is the king of flops right now ? Why is Ranveer paid so much when most of his hits include Deepika ? Unless Varun paid both the female and male roles, Alia deserves equal credit, but no one gives her that. So stop with the BS that the audience goes to see males. Only Khans and a brave Kangy or a Vidya. So why the hell aren't they paid on that level ? Shahid is a flop star and Saif is not a big star but how much were they paid for Rangoon ? Kangy was called a bitch for asking for equal money and mocked when Rangoon flopped, what about SRK or Bhai or Aamir who have had flops ? BS and double standards.

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