2 pretty well known producers made some rather disturbing statements acknowledging male dominance in the film industry. While I agree that it is male dominated, it is comments like these that assert that the top guys are not willing to take chances and make a difference in trends and instead support mindsets like these.
Someone should show them The Dirty Picture, No One Killed Jessica, Fashion, Murder, Black, Chameli, Chandi Bar and I am sue there are many more.
Heroines have a limited age in acting. And whether the hero has a hit or a flop with a heroine, he wants to be paired up with a different face each time.
Also, a fresh pair with a newer actress adds to the glamour quotient and also increases the audience curiosity.
-----S Kumar Mohan, one of the producers of Sanjay Dutt's Thaanedaar Returns, on pairing younger actresses with older actors.
Of course, he would say that. He is working with Sanjay Dutt who loves pairing himself with women half his age - gotta kiss your lead man's ass! And Sanjay believes in "protecting" the women of his family like his sisters and daughters who are not allowed to become actors because of the "nature of the film industry" of which he is a part and such a major contributor to this "nature". What a male chauvinist!
Both Hollywood and Bollywood are hero-oriented industries. Although of late, heroines have been getting their due abroad and here, no heroine can make a film run on her own steam the way a hero can. While the heroine-oriented subjects are exceptions, they form only a small number of the movies made every year.
-----Sajid Khan on male-dominance in the film industry.
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