Movie promotions have become an indispensable part of movies these days. When the movies are slated to release you will see the actors are buzy in promoting the movie in each and every top reality show and even in other events. Kahaani 2 has hit the theatres today and that’s why we saw Vidya Balan almost everywhere these days.
Recently, she was interviewed by Delhi Times, The Times of India where she spoke her heart out about almost everything in her life – movies, motherhood, married life, issues with female actors face in Bollywood and many others. Some major excerpts from the interview are as follows
“I’ve played bigger roles in films and still the male actors have been paid more.”
“There was a film, and I won’t name the actor, out of respect for him, but there was a film in which I was playing the bigger role, and he was getting paid more. And that bothered me. Because I am playing the bigger role! I am putting in more effort! I am not asking you to pay me for nothing, but you can’t pay him double of what you are paying me. I am not putting in any less effort, if at all, I am putting in more effort. These things – like waiting for an actor endlessly, while I am ready on the set – bothered me. Doesn’t matter if I am a woman or a man, but I take my job very seriously. So I will report on set on time, if you tell me 9 o’clock for an interview, I will be ready at 9. Now if someone walks into the set four hours late, by which time I have lost steam, I have to pull myself up again, to give a performance where I am not looking disinterested or angry.”
