Adah Sharma criticized ‘gender discrimination’ in Bollywood, said- ‘I don’t enjoy…’

Bollywood actress Adah Sharma has been making headlines ever since her latest film The Kerala Story hit the theatres. Crossing the Rs 200 crore mark, the film has become the third highest grosser of this year. Adah who earlier started her acting career in all regional film industries has recently come out in open about the discrimination prevailing in the Hindi film industry on the basis of gender.

During an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Adah Sharma revealed that it doesn’t matter in which industry you work, if you find a worthy director, things will work out in the end. He said, “I have worked with people from the North and the South, who were wonderful and not surprising. I have a feeling that this is the person. If you have a good director, whatever the language, everything goes great. But if your director is not very pleasant, and not very nice, that’s not a good thing.”

Adah further emphasized her views saying, “I have met the good, the bad and the ugly everywhere. I find it very strange that they call the girl on the set first and then say, ‘Okay, wait.’ When they see, ‘Okay. She is here’, then he called up the actor’s manager and asked him to come on the sets and the girl was already there. I feel discriminated on the basis of gender, I do not enjoy working in such an environment.

Adah Sharma’s The Kerala Story has crossed the Rs 200 crore mark at the box office. The film, which released on 5 May, revolves around the stories of Hindu women from Kerala who were converted to Islam and trafficked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Ever since its release, a section of the audience has been terming the film as ‘propaganda’. Members of the film’s cast and crew also received threatening messages after the film’s release. Earlier this month, director Sudipto Sen informed the police that one of the crew members received a threat message that read, “They didn’t do a good job by showing the story.”