The "HE" Box Office....

Congratulations!Finally a bollywood actress is being paid a whopping Rs 3.5 crores per film, and the honour goes to Kareena Kapoor.It calls for a celebration, for a woman just got empowered with a hiking income.This is the highest an actress has recived in the history of Indian Film Industry.
However, the female actors still have to go a long way that to very speedily, to stand shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts,When it comes to earning moolah.Amir Khan recently turned down a three film deal worth sixty crores.Not too far behind, is Akshay Kumar who is currently being paid seventeen crores per film and not to forget, Hrithik Roshan's three film deal worth thirty five crores, with adlabs, which had been the talk of the town earlier this year. In the midst of these towering figures, a three film deal worth four to five crores for Priyanka Chopra appears miniscule.
As far as artisitic abilities worth grabbing a couple of awards ar concerned,actresses maybe at power with the actors or even ahead of them, but when it comes to being paid for their work, male actors laugh their way to the banks.While, the actresses are left hoping for the better.
Where did the principle for equal pay for equal work go?Is this general disparity or the female actors actually dont deserve more than that.According to the trade analysts the name of the actor makes a film run at the box office and not that of the actress.Calling a spade a spade, it has to be a SRK or Akshay Kumar starer and not a Tabu Or Konkona Starer to make it's presence felt @ the B.O.To an extent the analysts are correct, as dancing around the trees at exotic locations, drapping a shiffon saree (which is sometime replaced by a mini-skirt) doesnt really contribute to the story which is generally male oriented.What else an actress has to do in the unaltered nonsense of brain dead comedies and essentially old ridiculous re-incarnation stories, which hit ti really well at the B.O.
It makes sense if actresses are no paid more than what they are in these genres of film.Sadly, when actresses try their luck in different genres (read women oriented films like Astitiva, Chandani Bar, Dor, Provoked) they fail to grab the audiences' attention( since the male dominated workd prefers to see male dominated cinema) and eventually -fail at the Box office.Again, actresses donot get what they deserve that is a high payment.

I guess, we will have to wait for a change to happen.Till then...kudos to Kareena Kapoor!