Bollywood sources have stated that the euphoria of seeing Deepika Padukone's name on the list of the world’s top highest paid actresses has wore off the minute Forbes have released the list of top 10 actors and as always, women trail dismally, a distant speck behind the men if this were an Olympic sport, they missed the podium by two places.
It is stated that actress #1, with earnings of $46 million, Jennifer Lawrence limps to sixth place on the combined list behind Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Jackie Chan, Matt Damon, Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp. Deepika, 30, is in last place her $10 million puts her way, way behind even Harrison Ford, who has currently occupied the last spot on the actors' list of 20 with $15 million.
Meanwhile Deepika is eclipsed completely by the Indian actors in the top 20, whereas Amitabh Bachchan, her co-star from Piku, is assigned a spot much lower than her tenth on the list of actors but made twice as much as she did in the last year.
Bollywood actors are so thrilled to discover Deepika Padukone making it to a top 10 list despite being paid so much less than her male colleagues and it means that working twice as hard and making more films will not entitle actresses to a fee that begins to that compare to their male co-stars, not even when both receive equal screen time, like in Piku.
