Forbes list: Pay gap exists and even Indias Global Icon Priyanka Chopra cant escape it
After the roll out of Forbes list - worlds highest paid film stars Indias global superstar, Priyanka Chopra been left out of the mix. Zeebiz points out the wage disparity in the film industry.
Key Highlights
- No Bollywood actress made it on to the Forbes list of world's highest paid actors.
- Three Bollywood male actors including SRK, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar featured on the list.
- Priyanka Chopra earned $11 million in 2016.
India is known to have an enormous wage disparity problem among its male and female population and its film industry is no stranger to it either.
A couple days ago Forbes released its list of highest paid actors in the world which featured major Bollywood stars like – Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and even Akshay Kumar. However the Indian actresses were left out of the ‘rich and glamorous list.’
What’s a bit more surprising is that India’s ‘Global Icon,’ Priyanka Chopra, who trotted internationally on several accounts to receive a number of awards didn’t feature on the list.
Chopra, who is known for multiple leading roles in Bollywood films, did the voice over for ‘Kaa’ in the Hindi version of the blockbuster movie – The Jungle Book which released last year.
She also travelled to the United States for her performance in the lifeguard drama – Baywatch that released in 2017.
Chopra was hailed as India’s ‘truly global superstar’ after being featured in ‘100 most influential people in the world’ by Time Magazine in 2016.
The former Miss World turned Bollywood actress and singer also won the Stardust award for Global Icon of the year in 2016.
She also won the People’s Choice Awards two years in a row in 2016 and 2017 for her performance on the American series - Quantico.
Recently Chopra managed to make it to LinkedIn’s Power Profiles 2017 alongside political personalities such as Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
Priyanka Chopra has been in the news for many controversial matters. Be it her lack of ‘sanskari attire’ while meeting PM Modi or even standing up for Indians and their English speaking capabilities at the Chelsea Handler talk show last year.
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