Dia Mirza Feels 50 Plus Actors Pair Up With Teen Actresses 'To Extend Their Own Shelf Life', Finds It Bizarre

Dia Mirza has completed nearly two decades in Bollywood. The beauty who won over millions of hearts with her performances has now shared her views on the scarcity of roles of older actresses as compared to older actor and in a recent interview admitted that she finds it bizarre how 50 something actors are paired with teenage actresses.

Talking about Bollywood having room for young faces but not enough roles for aging actresses Dia in a chat with Times Of India remarked, “The idea of beauty is always associated with youthfulness. I think that is why there is a large interest in consuming younger faces. An aberration to this would be an actress like Neena Gupta ji. She literally has said it out loud more than once, ‘I am an actor. I love my job. Please cast me.’"

Dia does feel that Bollywood in recent times has undergone a shift with more opportunities for women opening up especially with the advent of OTT platforms but admitted that there is still a lack of stories being written from the female lens.

Talking about the inherent sexism in the industry and older actors being cast in younger roles the Sanju actress added, “The industry is male-dominated. Older men like to be cast opposite younger women to extend their own shelf life. It is bizarre that a 50 plus something actor is acting opposite a 19-year-old actress.”

Dia was last seen in Thappad earlier this year and recently celebrated two decades of her Miss Asia Pacific win.