00:00Heroine pe toh depend karti hai nahi film. It's still a very male-centric, denominated
00:13cinema of ours.
00:14That time it was.
00:15Yeah. And then if you have a good equation with your actors, even if you're a bad, a
00:22flop heroine, theek hai chal jata hai.
00:25That much it didn't matter to the heroine those days.
00:28Not so much.
00:29They still got films with, you know, doh gaane aur doh.
00:32Wohi, it's the same even now, na, ke ladkiyon ko toh mil jate hain.
00:37No, there are media parts now. There were props in the 80s, 90s, doh gaane, doh sexy
00:42scene, doh shower ke neeche, doh beach ke upar, aapka pack up.
00:47I don't know.
00:48Baki sab hero karega.
00:49But flop ka effect aaj ki tarikh bhi ladkon pe zyada hota hai.
00:53Agreed.
00:54Which is why the boys are paid so much more than girls.
00:58They are the ones who bring in the audience.
01:00They bring in the audience or they keep the audience out. It's up to them.
01:03We're not taking the onus at all.
01:05No, but pay parity is coming. Starting with Kareena, a few years back, she took her prize
01:09to double figures in crores, Deepika followed.
01:11Still not close to any of the boys.
01:13Then Shah Rukh agreed that the heroine's name should come above the boys.
01:17Too little, too late.
01:18Those are little gestures. They don't really matter.
01:20They make no difference. Nobody even sits through credits anymore.
01:24Everybody goes out to the loo, gets their popcorn.
01:27That's just notional. It's making us happy.
01:30It's got nothing to do with heroines. It's women.
01:33They are never satisfied.
01:35Itna kiya se still not satisfied.
01:37Ikkis ikkis crore upar heroine ki price ho gayi.
01:40Naam Akshay Shah Rukh se pehle aata hai.
01:42Ab mujhe bala, no no, too little. Toh kya kar le?
01:45Ikkis haqat ho gayi ladki ki, the boys are still taking 100 and 500.
01:49Still a huge disparity.
01:5199 plus B.
01:55So whatever, there's still a lot of disparity.
02:00No matter how much the heroine's pay packages increase, it's still not comparing to a boy.
02:07But why should women get more money than the hero if they are not bringing in the audience?
02:11That's my stand. However unfeminist it might sound.
02:16Look at Nalia's solo film, look at Kriti's solo film. Appreciation, but not those numbers.
02:22It doesn't bring in the numbers.
02:25You think Alu Arjun brought in the audience or was it Rashmika?
02:29Obviously Alu Arjun.
02:31Hardcore numbers.
02:33Even though she had a good role.
02:35But even then, it's Alu Arjun, it's not Rashmika who brought in the audience.
02:39Yup, yup, absolutely.
02:41So if she got 10 crore and he got something I can't count.
02:45So I think it's fair enough.
02:49We have to stop screaming about it.
02:53Because with a 21 crore price tag also, Kareena couldn't afford a watchman outside her house.
02:58Now you'll pay 100 and then you'll do something.
03:02Or a driver in the night.
03:05Auto!
03:07He's very bad, I'd want to sit with him.
03:12Kareena was my kid before she became an actress.
03:16You're going on Insta busy saying that Saif was my co-star.
03:21Sure.
03:23And I feel bad.
03:25Of course I feel bad.
03:27I don't like somebody getting emotional.
03:30I've fought on TV debates to favour Saif and Kareena.
03:35They're not very close friends.
03:38But I directed and produced Karishma, where Karishma Kapoor's debut on Saara.
03:43So the whole year, Kareena was not an actress.
03:45Even the Burani World Tours with Kareena, she was a little baby.
03:47She used to come along with a dignified, very distinguished couple.
03:52But two things in the debates when they used to ask me, why was there no security outside the house?
03:57So what if you live in a building?
03:59I mean, what is very funny is people...
04:01Oh no, it's a very safe building, it has 30 CCTVs.
04:03How does a CCTV bring a hand out and stop a chaur from coming?
04:07It can only help you to solve the crime.
04:09It doesn't stop crime.
04:10So just because you have 30 CCTVs in the building doesn't make it safe.
04:14So that and not having a full-time driver.
04:17No, no, we were just talking.
04:19And not having a full-time driver in the night.
04:21These are because of the pay parity that you're talking about.
04:25Most Mumbai homes don't have the space.
04:28For what?
04:29Staff overnight.
04:31You mean to say...
04:33Saif Ali Khan with his 20,000 crore properties.
04:38And Kareena getting her pay parity.
04:41They don't have a place to keep a guard.
04:45And they don't keep a guard to sleep.
04:48They keep a guard to stay awake at night.
04:50Exactly.
04:51I shall phone them up and ask them.
04:53No, no, I think they've been through shit.
04:56They have been through a lot.
04:58Let them recover because the media is making an issue out of nothing.
05:01And obviously they've been through much more than we all know.
05:04No, no, true, true.
05:06And the media has made it like Sushant Singh Rajput Mela.
05:09Why media?
05:10Channels.
05:11That's media.
05:12Why media?
05:13It's not media.
05:14You're giving them fodder.
05:15It's your public on social media.
05:17It's not got anything to do with social media.
05:19There are channels that say, we hate Bollywood.
05:21What your bloody Bollywood?
05:22And then 9pm you only want Sushant Singh Rajput, Shah Rukh Khan.
05:26No, no, what is this?
05:27You're milking TRP.
05:28You're after the channel.
05:30No, no, he's my friend.
05:31I love him.
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