Celebs should be allowed to recycle and use clothes: Poonam Dhillon

Amidst the pressure on celebrities not to repeat clothes or accessories like bags, yesteryear actress Poonam Dhillon said filmstars should recycle and re-use clothes.

Amidst the pressure on celebrities not to repeat clothes or accessories like bags, yesteryear actress Poonam Dhillon said filmstars should recycle and re-use clothes.

“Today there is pressure on every heroine. There is a lot of pressure not to repeat clothes or bags. If I use the same bag three times, the media will show it saying I am repeating it,” said the 53-year-old actress while speaking at ‘Women Economic Forum’ which is currently underway here.

“I think filmstars should not be pressurised to do that. They should be allowed to recycle and use the same clothes,” she said.

The actress, who is known for her role in 1979-film ‘Noorie’, said today various brands offer clothes to the celebrities as product endorsement has become a huge business.

“Today truth does not sell but perception does. Filmstars endorse beauty products, which at times they might not even use. We endorse the product and make innocent people in India spend their money on buying the same products,” she added.

Filmmakers today want ‘little chicklets’: Poonam Dhillon

Yesteryear actress Poonam Dhillon here today said there is not much scope for senior actresses in the film industry today as filmmakers want to cast “little chicklets”.

“Our industry is lacking the need to have matured women. They (filmmakers) need little chicklets,” said the actress, who was in the city to attend Women Economic Forum.

Dhillon, 53, said the mature actresses can express emotions better but filmmakers today mostly want to cast the young actresses.

“As you grow older, you mature and have more emotions to express. The roles which I did when I was 17 or 18 (years), I had no emotions. I have done scenes of delivering baby, where I did not know what it was,” the ‘Sohni-Mahiwal’ actress said.

She, however, acknowledged that the nearly three-decade old phase where a lot of women-oriented films were produced, is returning and things have changed dramatically since she joined the industry.

“Earlier women were supposed to be pretty-looking people around. Their opinions were not even asked for. But, today the film industry, especially television, is ruled by women. We have seen women being respected in every part of media,” she said.

The actress also raised the issue of low wages paid to female actors as compared to their male counterparts.

“But, despite all this reality, women are still paid less compared to men,” Dhillon added.

Censor Board member Ashoke Pandit, fashion journalists Shefalee Vasudev, Geeta Rao, and President of Whistling Woods International (Mukta Arts) Meghna Ghai Puri were other among guests who attended the programme.

Source:: Indian Express