Pooja Bhatt, daughter of Mahesh Bhatt is a renowned actress turned producer/director.
Pooja has headlined some powerful scripts her productions also had female leads taking the charge of the movie on their shoulder.
Years back when female producers often face budget hindrance especially for female-led movies, Pooja believes it is the depth of the role that decides the pay in her movies.
While talking about the same to Pinkvilla, Pooja says “For me, I was competing for trade with my uncle and father. Rather my father had kind of formulated a way for them to make movies in a certain budget. So, if they were making a movie in 10 crores, I had to make a movie in 7.5 crores as a producer. So, I had to deal with that first.”
Pooja revealed that Kajol was paid more than Sanjay Dutt for Dushman and so was the case with Bipasha Basu and Sunny Leone for Jism and Jism 2 respectively.
She says “When I made Dushman I cast Kajol first and she was paid more than Sanjay Dutt in that movie because it was her film. So, for me, it was always about the fact, that it is the role that decides how much somebody takes home. It’s not about a man or a woman in that sense. When I made Jism series, John was new, he was being launched, so Bipasha got paid a lot more than him. And even with Jism 2, while casting Sunny Leone, there was a sizeable amount of money that I gave her that Randeep Hooda till date cribs about.”
Pooja Bhatt will make a comeback in acting with her upcoming series Bombay Begum.