The face of change

Neha Dhupia supports new trends in Bollywood

NEW DELHI: Actor and former Femina Miss India Neha Dhupia has said that when she first stepped into showbiz, she would often wonder why men are not labelled as ‘sex symbols’ like women are. But now, she is glad that Bollywood has changed over the years.

“Everybody talked about how at that point, my image was a sex symbol. I always wondered why men are not labelled the same but it has all changed,” said the Garam Masala star. “John Abraham showed a sneak peak of his bottom in Dostana and then Shah Rukh Khan revealed his abs in Dard-e-Disco. Men also started becoming sex symbols and all that has changed now.”

The actor — who is associated with a number of social causes — has now joined a detergent brand’s ‘India’s Dads #ShareTheLoad’ campaign to address the issue of household inequality along with her father Pradip Singh Dhupia. Over the past month, the movement received local and international support from the likes of Pankaj Kapur, Supriya Pathak, Tabu, Sheryl Sandberg and Melinda Gates, just to name a few.



Dhupia recently stepped into the world of TV through the show MTV Roadies 4 and revealed that acting with her father was a “fantastic” experience. “I think it was absolutely fantastic because this was the first time I was actually doing something and sharing space with my dad. I was not nervous at all but actually excited to share the screen with him. We had fun,” she said. Dhupia went on to reveal that her father is also pleasantly surprised that “doing laundry with my mother and sharing the load will actual bring him to a place and make him a part of this campaign.” She also noted that the process of change has already seeped in. “It is already changing. Like I am doing a show like Roadies and there is no task, at any point, that we say only boys can do.” 

Published in The Express Tribune, April 1^st,  2016.

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