Actor Raveena Tandon attended the National Conclave on ‘Mann Ki Baat @ 100’ on Wednesday and during a panel discussion she mentioned that Hindi cinema should learn from sister mediums TV and OTT platforms, who are the leaders in paying women better and producing shows with female protagonists, respectively. She said that the film industry is slowly moving towards that direction but it has been a male-dominated industry since the beginning.
‘We also talk about pay disparity but in the TV industry today, women are paid much higher than their male counterparts, which is a great thing because of the kind of work they do and I think in our TV industry, women rule. In OTT platforms too, the protagonists are mostly women, women issues are discussed,’ she added.
‘In the film industry, we are going there slowly but surely because it has been a male-dominated industry since the beginning but there is definitely a change. Our women have broken the glass ceiling, we have entered every male bastion...,’ the actor said.
‘In the world today, there is a change because all the top positions, be it director of photography, our choreographers, our directors, producers, platform heads and channel heads are women. A woman being at the helm of producing something, she understands those issues, she understands the sensitivity, she has the sensibilities so we get more opportunities. There is a lot of change in the film industry that was not there in the 90s. You would get stereotyped for playing a certain character," she said.
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