Male actors still dominating film industry: Sharmila Tagore
The actress feels that women are still not on par with their male counterparts.
Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore feels that male actors are still dominating the film industry and scripts are especially written for them.
MUMBAI (Web Desk) - The 68-year-old National-award winner actress Sharmila Tagore said actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah are still ruling Bollywood but their female counterparts are lost somewhere as there are no films for these ageing actresses.
"It is not uncommon to see heroes in their late forties romancing women just out of their teens, but the opposite is rarely the case.
Scripts are specially written for an Amitabh Bachchan or even an Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah but the same is not true for an ageing actress," said Tagore.
Having started her career as a child actress in Satyajit Ray s 1959 Bengali film Apur Sansar, Tagore recalled that she was asked by her principal to leave the school as it would be a bad influence to other girls.
"No women from any strata of society was prepared to work in such a lowly profession," she said. But she feels that her marriage to the legendary cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan changed the perception of media and society towards her.
The actress feels that women are still not on par with their male counterparts irrespective of the fact that women empowerment is one of the main slogans of every political party.
