B-Town women face abuse, discrimination

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B-Town women face abuse, discrimination

Hindustan Times
New Delhi, July 09, 2012


Reports of Salman Khan hitting Katrina Kaif bring to light how women in Bollywood have always faced harassment and discrimination.

Salman Khan: Somy Ali, Aishwarya Rai, Katrina Kaif
When Salman was dating actor Somy Ali in the 90s, it was reported that he smashed a bottle of cola on her head at a party, in a fit of rage.
Aishwarya admitted in an interview that Salman had hit her during their relationship. In 2001, Ash's family had filed a complaint about Salman coming to their house drunk and breaking furniture and window panes. In 2003 the actor issued a statement against Sallu in which she wrote, "I stood by him enduring alcoholism and misbehavior in its worst phases and in turn, I was at the receiving end of his abuse (verbal, physical, emotional), infidelity and indignity."

Salman allegedly slapped Katrina Kaif on the sets of their film Yuvraaj in 2008, after he saw a picture of her in a newspaper with Akshay Kumar at an IPL match. He also reportedly slapped her earlier at a coffee shop.
Salman-KtarinaRahul Mahajan: Dimpy Ganguly
Rahul Mahajan, the reality TV actor, already had a history of abuse, with reports that he used to beat his former wife Shweta. Dimpy, who married Mahajan on reality show Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge later alleged that Mahajan had beaten her and threatened her with a gun. Dimpy claimed that Mahajan punched and kicked her after wanting to know the contents of an SMS on her phone. However, she later went back to him.

Zeenat Aman: Sanjay Khan, Mazhar Khan
Sanjay Khan and Zeenat Aman met on the sets of a film in 1980 and started dating. It has been reported that Khan assaulted Zeenat in full public view in the lobby of a Mumbai Hotel.

According to reports, Khan beat her so badly that the actor had a doctor and nurse attending to her for eight days and she had to take anti-depressants three times a day. Reason: Khan wanted to re-shoot a song from their film Abdullha, but she refused due to other commitments.

Zeenat married actor Mazhar Khan in 1985. It was reported that Mazhar beat her and the couple later filed for divorce.

Bollywood and the casting couch

Madhur Bhandarkar/Preeti Jain
In July 2004, actor Preeti Jain lodged a complaint against filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar alleging that he had raped her 16 times between 1999 and 2004, under the pretext of casting her as actor in his films. Madhur insists the complaint was of "cheating" and did not mention rape.

Dibaker Banerjee/Payal Rohatgi
In March 2011, actor Payal Rohatgi accused filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee of trying to take advantage of her physically. Payal said, "Dibakar commented that I had gained weight. He asked me to show him my stomach. I didn't like it." Dibakar said she made the comments to malign his image.

Irrfan Khan/Mamata Patel
Irrfan Khan was accused of deceitful intimacy by actor Mamata Patel who worked with him in Paan Singh Tomar. Mamata said that Irrfan exploited her during the outdoor shoot of the film and threatened her to stay mum about their relation and also promised her meaty roles in future projects.

Subhash Ghai/Rina Golan
New York-raised Rina Golan in her book Dear Mister Bollywood: How I Fell In Love with India, Bollywood and Shah Rukh Khan, named industry veterans Subhash Ghai, Anup Jalota and Anees Bazmee in her biography, claiming that they all asked her for sexual favours when she met them for work.

Ismail Darbar/Poonam Yadav
Music director Ismail Darbar was accused of being responsible for Sa Re Ga Ma contestant Poonam Yadav's supposed pregnancy, abortion and a suicide attempt that followed. Poonam slammed the accusations saying, "Ismail sir has been my pillar of strength. Don't drag his name into this."

Rajkumar Santoshi/Mamta Kulkarni
Actor Mamta Kulkarni had accused filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi of asking her for sexual favours on the sets of China Gate and said that when she refused, he cut her role. Santoshi denied all rumours and post this incident Mamta lost out many roles in Bollywood, and her career was cut short.

2011
The year was titled as the year of women power, even though there were only a handful of releases with female actors playing the role of the central protagonist including No One Killed Jessica, Turning 30, The Dirty Picture, 7 Khoon Maaf, Shabri and That Girl In Yellow Boots. The majority of releases were all about heroes and their heroism.

While in 2012...
There has been one woman-oriented film yet: Kahaani. The next will be Bebo's Heroine. In terms of debutant directors, Puja Jatinder Bedi, Anu Menon and Gitanjali Saha gave duds such as Ghost; London, Paris, New York and Yeh Khula Aasmaan. Bela Sehgal and Gauri Shinde will come out with Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi and English Vinglish.

Pay disparity, top 5 actors
Bollywood has always been titled as a male dominated industry, not just in terms of the majority of male-centric films but due to the huge gap in pay packages. Male actors earn three to four times more than their female counterparts.

Aamir Khan: 30cr
Shah Rukh Khan: 25cr
Salman Khan: 25-30cr
Akshay Kumar: 20-25cr
Ajay Devgn: 15-18cr
Hrithik Roshan: 15-20cr

Kareena Kapoor: 5-8cr
Priyanka Chopra: 4-6cr
Katrina Kaif: 4-6cr
Vidya Balan: 3-5cr
Deepika Padukone: 2-4cr


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Posted: 13 years ago
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It's interesting how people embrace some aspects of modernism...for instance Twitter...but...conveniently ignore the other aspect of it...the most obvious one being the pay disparity mentioned in this article...

hello!!!! B-Town... we are living in the 21 st century! wake up...things have changed...otherwise, do not use twitter...or cell phones...or don't make 3D films...it's time to embrace all aspects of evolution...

If Vidya can deliver as much as any top male actor...why shouldn't she get paid 20 crores?

As for the abuse...I say if Kat or Somy or any other woman chooses to stay silent...people like Salman will just keep abusing women...period...

It takes a lot of courage to face your abuser...and most women are just simply afraid... Unfortunately, that will not help shed light on the issue
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Originally posted by: nicko787

Wonder which woman wrote this utter crap.


Also. Half of those news are BUNCH OF BULLSHIT!!!

Thirdly
Guys get paid higher because films don't work on Actresses shoulder. Don't blame the Industry.
Blame the media who writes total CRAP.


@bold

Of course...how convenient for you...
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Originally posted by: sogazelle

It's interesting how people embrace some aspects of modernism...for instance Twitter...but...conveniently ignore the other aspect of it...the most obvious one being the pay disparity mentioned in this article...


hello!!!! B-Town... we are living in the 21 st century! wake up...things have changed...otherwise, do not use twitter...or cell phones...or don't make 3D films...it's time to embrace all aspects of evolution...

If Vidya can deliver as much as any top male actor...why shouldn't she get paid 20 crores?

As for the abuse...I say if Kat or Somy or any other woman chooses to stay silent...people like Salman will just keep abusing women...period...

It takes a lot of courage to face your abuser...and most women are just simply afraid... Unfortunately, that will not help shed light on the issue

but when aish did, people just called her a liar...why? because there is no proof, etc! salman, shahrukh, amir, amitabh...all these celebs are lucky in that their wrong doings can manipulate the law and fans can conjure 101 excuses to make their actions right...there is just no sense of justice...
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Originally posted by: nicko787

Kahaani wasn't as big as Rowdy Rathore, Ra.One, Don 2, Dabangg, Bodyguard, Ready, Singham, Agneepath, 3 Idiots, Golmaal 3 etc...



If those girls were abused then who is stopping them from running their mouth NOTHING. the only matter id they actually abused. It sucks that you fall for those crap stories.

Also media is never told about how much an actor is actually paid. But anywhere in the world - male are more dominant over female because that's the nature.
Finally I don't what you are trying to claim here


It also sucks that you fall for the crap that your favorite star feeds you...someone...I suspect... that you have never met...someone ...like most celebrities...who employs huge PR agencies to give him the "perfect image".


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Originally posted by: listen786

but when aish did, people just called her a liar...why? because there is no proof, etc! salman, shahrukh, amir, amitabh...all these celebs are lucky in that their wrong doings can manipulate the law and fans can conjure 101 excuses to make their actions right...there is just no sense of justice...


Ash is the perfect example of a courageous woman...

Unfortunately...if she is the only one to come out...people will conveniently choose to call her a liar...because...they are scare to confront Salman...who is understandably more powerful than her...

Look at what happened to Vivek's career after he sided with her...
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Originally posted by: nicko787


SO you believe these Females don't have PR


All celebrities employ PR...my point is that as much as you believe that the media writes crap...celebrities PR also write crap...it goes both ways...

At the end of the day...we are free to choose what we want to believe and who we want to believe...

I posted an article that seem to discuss issues that currently plague our society...

And I think that it calls for a healthy discussion...

But if you are one of those fan that cannot see beyond what their favorite celebrity feeds them...then maybe it is better for you to skip this thread...


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only aish had the guts to publicly expose salman and she still survived.Vivek is a namard,he went against sal to impress aish and when aish left him he said sorry to him.Hypocryte
Kat knows her career is finished if she says a word against salman.She has no self-respect.
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iam shocked by reading about imran khan!!
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This is the reason why I hate Item Songs!
They give the women a name of being sec objects.
There are also other problems like women do not get roles when they reach their 30s or get marries. That is not the case when men are even at their peak 40s. What the hell? Bollywood got to learn a lot.
Dark-skinned actress are not prioritized in Bollywood , where its fine whether dark skinned male actor or not. That is just Sexism!

Further on its funny to see how society in India is changing , specially the middle-class society ,however bollywood is still in the 16th century where they should be an example for the society as they have a big power to change the society due their (they are actually changing their society into worse due to movies like Cooktail or Houseful).

I find this disgusting and this topic should be addressed and solves. I do not understand how actresses are actually buying this!
Normally actresses stand up against men domination in rural india and help organisations which target men domination but how about fighting for your rights!

the thing that annoyed me the most was the pay difference. Are we still in 1950s!

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