I Would Tell Mom ‘Why The Hell Should I Learn To Cook?’: Vidya Balan On Gender Bias
Mumbai: Actor Vidya Balan has opened up on facing gender bias and how it makes her angry. Talking about gender bias, the actress recalled when her mother would ask her to learn cooking.
Vidya recalled an incident at the dinner table in which she was told that she should know how to cook. “I remember people telling me at dinner that oh my god, you don’t know how to cook. I said, ‘No, Siddharth and I don’t know how to cook’. They said, ‘But you should know how to cook na…I wanted to say (enacting as if she wanted to hit somebody) why should it be any different for Sidharth and me?” the actor said.
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She also said that when her mother asked her to learn to cook, she would tell him, “Why should I learn to cook, I would earn enough to hire a cook or marry a man who could cook.”
During the interview, Vidya also said that we all face gender bias and it is not necessarily from the opposite gender. “Even I think we all judge each other, see each other as human beings and that’s a little sharp for women or with women. Of course, I face gender bias. I have to. I get angry… I get angry and then I slice them in my mind. It happens very rarely now, but still,” he said.
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On the work front, Vidya will be next seen in Sherni, the trailer of which has already been released. In the movie, Vidya is playing the role of Indian Forest Service (IFS) and is placed in a world where she has to face sexism and also use her intellect to cleverly trap the tigress. The movie will be released on June 18 on Amazon Prime Video.
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