“Why there were no women in this room?”: Dia Mirza on Bollywood Delegation meet with PM Modi

Bollywood actress Dia Mirza believes in speaking her mind and doesn’t shy away from calling spade a spade. The actress has always championed the rights of women and battled for equality in the industry.

Now, recently a delegation from the Bollywood met PM Narendra Modi in Delhi to discuss a range of issues. But, the peculiar thing from that meeting was there was not a single woman member part of the delegation.

On Tuesday (December 18), an 18-member panel, including Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, Ajay Devgn, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Ritesh Sidhwani and CBFC chief Prasoon Joshi, met the prime minister to discuss how to take the entertainment industry to the next stage.

Dia Mirza was quite upset and made her frustration known by taking to Twitter and posting this message.

This is wonderful! Is there a reason why there were no women in this room? @akshaykumar https://t.co/oO9teT3Gyi

— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) December 19, 2018

When one of the social media users pointed out that the organizers of the meet need to questioned for selecting an all-male group, Dia responded and agreed with the individual.

True. Wish one of the men had asked this question. How can an entire Industry be represented only by men? https://t.co/SqeRGFT3FV

— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) December 20, 2018

When some Twitter user told Dia not to make this a male vs female competition issue. Dia Mirza very calmly put across her point of view.

It’s not about competition! It’s such a fundamental thing. If we hope to achieve equality we must be included in all conversations! Of course women are doing well. We are doing well despite the fact that we are excluded. And doesn’t that need to change? https://t.co/D9ug3OG55U

— Dia Mirza (@deespeak) December 20, 2018

Bollywood, as an industry has come leaps and bounds and its high time that women deserve the respect that they deserve.

Also Read: Alankrita Shrivastava is not thrilled with only male delegates meeting PM Modi for industry meet

Dhaval Mehta

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