Comedian-actress Mallika Dua took to Twitter to rant against her fellow comedian Zakir Khan, who was paid more than double the amount she was paid for 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge', adding that the deal was finalised by talent management company Only Much Louder (OML) on behalf of her.
Here's what she had to say:
OML is a sexist frat house that will jump 2 bail their boys out literally &figuratively but will only rep women to tick the diversity checkbox that helps scam @PrimeVideoIN but when it comes 2 standing up for women,ensuring equal pay n opportunity they are conspicuously missing.
— Mallika Dua (@MallikaDua) October 5, 2018
Recently found out. @Zakirism was paid more than double of what I was for The Great Indian Laughter challenge. For the exactl same job. We were both OML talents are the time and this is the deal they locked for me. I hope to god it isn’t true.
— Mallika Dua (@MallikaDua) October 5, 2018
Recently, writer-comedian Utsav Chakraborty was called out for sexually harassing girls and young women on Social Media.
While a number of celebrities have earlier spoken about gender pay disparity across all industries, Monster Salary Index report, based on data collected from the paycheck.in salary calculator, reflected that there was a 25.4 per cent gender pay gap in India in the year 2016.
In March 2017, it was reported that women earned 25 per cent less than men, indicating that there has been no major change in pay gap in a span of a year.
Mallika recently also commented on Tanmay Bhat's acknowledgement of Utsav's alleged wrongdoings, stating that he should have been more aware in his dealings with Chakraborty. She also said, "This toxic, sexist, bro culture in comedy is nauseating and quite easy to ignore until we or one of our own becomes a casualty," in her reply to Tanmay's apology tweet.
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