Bollywood is a huge industry across the world making hundreds of crores every year with some actors and actresses raking in big moolah. It has come a long way from the kind of cinema that it used to produce and the way it used to treat its actors and actresses. But there still remains a great divide in the way the silver screen treats its female folk. Actresses are treated differently, and are primarily known for their looks, rather than their performances.

Understanding the age game

Bollywood, unlike Hollywood, has its own concept of marriage and age. While a Meryl Streep or a Tom Cruise would continue to bag good roles despite their age, chances of something similar happening in Bollywood are not quite the same.

hah Rukh Khan and Kajol were quite the hit couple in the 90s. While SRK still continues to play roles varying from an underworld don to a hockey coach to an Air Force officer, Kajol is nowhere in the picture even though her comeback film Fanaa (2006) did well.
The same is the case with Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla. Aamir, despite being 49, is offered roles of a college-going student (3 Idiots), while Juhi, 46, has to make do with roles like that of a crystal reader (Kismat Konnection) or feature in detergent powder TVCs.