Actor Ram Kapoor rose to fame with his role in the television series Bade Acche Lagte Hain alongside Sakshi Tanwar. In a recent interview, Ram expressed his view that gender equality is not essential in the entertainment industry because it is driven by audience preferences. He pointed out that while Bollywood heroes might overshadow heroines, the dynamic is different on television, where actresses often take center stage, and this disparity is rarely questioned.
Ram Kapoor told E Times, “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.”
He added, “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.”
“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,” Ram stated.
He continued, “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.”
He added, “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.
Following a successful television career, Ram Kapoor has appeared in films such as Karthik Calling Karthik, Agent Vinod, Student of the Year, and Udaan. He is set to star in the upcoming action film Yudhra, which is scheduled to be released later this month.
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