Actor Ram Kapoor became a household name after he starred in the television show Bade Acche Lagte Hain with Sakshi Tanwar. In a recent chat, Ram said that gender equality is not necessary in the entertainment industry as it is guided by the audience. He said that while heroes may be bigger than heroines in Bollywood, they play second fiddle to the actress when it comes to television and no one questions that.
“I don’t think gender equality needs to really happen in the entertainment industry… Because every industry has a certain dynamic, and that dynamic has been chosen by the audience,” Ram Kapoor told the Hindustan Times.
“For 15 years, I was part of the television industry where the female lead is much bigger than the male lead. On the small screen, it is all about Tulsi and Parvati. The male lead is the second fiddle to the female. But in those entire 15 years, I never cared about male gender economy there,” he added.
Ram continued, “I have been a part of an industry where the females have dominated and I’ve been totally okay with that. You know why? Because it is the audience who wanted that. Whether it’s Bollywood, where males are doing better, or television where the females are doing better, it doesn’t matter to me.” He mentioned, “When I was part of a scenario where the women were always overshadowing the men, I didn’t care then either. So why should I care now? This gender equality thing… some people make too much out of it”.
“People say that men are kept as the priority whether it’s Bollywood or Hollywood, and that may be true. But there are enough industries where it is the opposite and where nobody makes a big deal out of it,” said the actor.
Ram Kapoor said, “In the world of modelling, the male models cannot even come close to the female models worldwide. Everybody knows about Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. Does anyone remember a single male model of that time? There nobody talks about gender equality.”
“There are enough industries where women rule. Nobody makes a big deal. But what’s happened is that the feminine movement has made too big a deal about women coming. I don’t dwell on this because no matter what feminism might want to produce, it’s always the audience who will decide on what’s going to happen. Every industry has a place, and there is a reason for that. It has been there because that’s the structure that the society wanted. So why try to fight it,” he concluded.
After a successful career on television, Ram Kapoor has been seen in projects like Karthik Calling Karthik, Agent Vinod, Student of the Year and Udaan. He will soon be seen in the action-packed film, Yudhra, which is releasing soon this month.
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