The casting couch is “a huge problem” in the Bollywood film industry, where pay parity for female actresses is “a long way off”, star Sonam Kapoor has said. The superstar said women have been taught not to think it is wrong when they are treated unequally. Speaking ahead of the release of her new film Pad Man, a biopic about the man who tried to revolutionise the manufacturing of sanitary towels in India, she told the Press Association: “The casting couch is a huge problem. “We are a very small population of people who think differently but the mindset in India in general, it’s very contrary. “It’s a more pleasant environment to work in for a woman.”Pad Man is released in UK cinemas on January 25.

Source: Irish Examiner January 18, 2018 18:00 UTC