Sonakshi Sinha opened up about being rejected as a co-star because she felt she looked too old for him.
Actress Sonakshi Sinha, who recently slammed Mukesh Khanna for questioning her upbringing, seemed in no mood to spare anyone during a roundtable discussion with her peers. Sonakshi said once a male actor told her that she looked too old to work with him in a film, even though he is much older than her in real life. She said she is lucky that she did not have to work with that actor as she is not interested in working with such people.
When asked about the pressures that women still face in the film industry, she said in a roundtable discussion on Zoom, “It is very clear that such expectations do not apply to men. When they romance women 30 years younger, they are not age-shamed.
They are not shamed for having a belly or less hair. It is very clear that women bear the brunt of it.” Sonakshi further added, “In fact, I have had to deal with actors who are older than me and who have said, ‘She looks older than us’.
I just want to thank them. I would not want to work with someone like you. It is always the woman who struggles to move beyond it, overcome those obstacles and make her way in something that should be as effortless for women as it is for a man.
After all we are all artistes and it should not be such a struggle for women.” Sonakshi rhetorically asked, “Hey, I am 5-6 years younger than you!” Recently, Sonakshi hit back at Shaktimaan actor Mukesh Khanna, who questioned her father Shatrughan Sinha’s upbringing after she once failed to answer a question related to Ramayana on Kaun Banega Crorepati.
“Yes, I may have forgotten that day, it’s human tendency, and forgot who the Sanjivani booti was brought for, but clearly, you have also forgotten some lessons of forgiving and forgetting taught by Lord Rama,” she wrote in an Instagram story.
