Actor Vidya Balan questioned why director Sanjay Leela Bhansali walked away with all the credits for the ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’, starring Alia Bhatt. During her appearance on a roundtable interview conducted by Film Companion, she said that misogyny is the reason why Alia didn’t receive praise in the manner that a male actor would after delivering a massive hit.
Vidya asked, ‘How come Gangubai did well? If a woman’s film does well, it’s the director’s credit, and this is ridiculous.’
She further added, ‘We worked so hard as women to have a certain standing today, where we’re headlining films. More and more actresses are doing that. I love how post-pandemic, because the men’s films aren’t working, they suddenly turn around and say that the women’s films aren’t going to work all the more. How ridiculous? I really want to say, ‘What about Gangubai?’ It did more than most male-driven films.’
On the work front, Vidya Balan will be seen in ‘Neeyat’. She also has an untitled film alongside Pratik Gandhi, Ileana D’Cruz and Sendhil Ramamurthy in the pipeline.
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