Huma Qureshi says there may never be 100 percent pay parity in Bollywood

Huma Qureshi has said that women don’t get credit in movies but in life in general. She has likewise said that pay parity in the film industry may never be a reality yet one needs to keep on continuing to test pushing the envelope. The actress was most recently seen in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi. She performed a dance number Shikayat in the movie.

On being asked to share her perspectives on pay disparity and if female actors don’t get credit, Huma told ETimes in an interview, “I think women in general don’t get that credit. It is an unfair world. Of course, on papers we have equal rights but it doesn’t exist in reality. But then all of us are hustling, we’re pushing, trying to make it a fairer, more equal world. We’re trying to show up through our work, through how we conduct ourselves, we demand to sit at the table and we demand to be treated equally. I think it’s a constant process.”

She further added, “Will we ever achieve a 100% pay parity? I don’t think so. But the objective is to keep questioning, keep pushing up the envelope and see what kind of world we reach at and we all are part of that revolution, that sea of change.”