Kareena Kapoor questions Anil Kapoor over pay parity in Bollywood; latter replies, “You took a lot of money from me”

Kareena Kapoor recently questioned Anil Kapoor on her show ‘What Women Want’ about the wage gap that persists in Bollywood between male and female actors. However, the tables turned over on her as Anil’s response has left everyone stunned.

Kareena asked Anil that male actors in Hollywood have refused roles until female co-stars receive equal pay. She asked Anil if Bollywood actors should start doing the same. Anil replied, “You toh took a lot of money from me.”

Kareena replied, “We are breaking barriers, we are doing that. But like you said, there are still some people…” Anil narrated an incident from the time of ‘Veere Di Wedding’, he said the producers were telling him, “’Yaar, yeh toh hero se zyada paise maang rahi hai.’ Maine bola, ‘De do (‘She is demanding more money than the hero.’ I said, ‘Give it to her).’ They all called me up also, I said, ‘Done.’ They were calling me when the negotiations were on. I said, ‘Bebo jo maangegi, de do (Give Kareena what she wants).’”

He further added, “There are so many films where the leading actress has taken more money and maine khushi khushi kiya (I did the films happily).”

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Kareena and Anil have starred films such as ‘Bewafaa’ and ‘Tashan’. They will also be seen in Karan Johar’s ‘Takht’ together that also stars Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Janhvi Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal and Bhumi Pednekar.

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