{"id":58242,"date":"2025-08-10T18:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58242\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:47:12","slug":"shruti-haasan-says-box-office-pressure-is-more-on-male-actors-and-directors-its-a-boy-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58242\/","title":{"rendered":"Shruti Haasan says box office pressure is more on male actors and directors: \u2018It\u2019s a boy problem’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the film industry, box office performance often becomes a defining factor in an actor\u2019s career, creating immense pressure. However, Shruti Haasan<\/a> believes the burden is heavier on male actors. In an interview with Zoom<\/a>, Shruti explained why she thinks box office numbers are a \u201cboy problem\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Shruti Shruti Haasan reveals if she feels pressured by the box office numbers of her films. Shruti Haasan says box office number is a ‘boy problem’<\/p>\n

When asked if she is concerned about box office numbers, Shruti said, \u201cThe pressure is more on the male actors and directors, jinka Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday sab box office pe chalta hai (whose Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday all depend on the box office). For women leading films, box office numbers are never those numbers. The pressure there is to break even and do better. It is not about the \u20b92,000 crore club, the next club, probably.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shruti added that numbers can still benefit female actors in such projects, saying, \u201cNumbers keep growing, and this is a \u2018boy problem\u2019. It is nice to work in such films and there are benefits too for being a part of these big-ticket films. It is beneficial for women who are in them. You become a part of a saleable endeavour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shruti is set to appear in Lokesh Kanagaraj<\/a>\u2019s Coolie. At the film\u2019s audio launch event in Chennai, Rajinikanth <\/a>spoke about her role in the film and recalled, \u201cThere is an important female character\u2026 I asked who is going to play it. Lokesh said, \u2018Shruti, sir!\u2019 Is that it?? I saw the movie 3 at the time; she is a glamorous heroine! How about this role? He said, \u2018She is more interested in acting in your film than in her father\u2019s!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

About Coolie<\/p>\n

Helmed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and produced by Kalanithi Maran under Sun Pictures, the action thriller stars Rajinikanth, Nagarjuna, Soubin Shahir, Upendra, Shruti Haasan, and Sathyaraj in lead roles, along with Rachita Ram, Reba Monica John, Junior MGR, Kanna Ravi, Monisha Blessy, Kaali Venkat, and Charle in supporting roles. Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan will also make a special appearance in the film. It is scheduled to release in theatres on August 14 and will clash with Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR\u2019s War 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the film industry, box office performance often becomes a defining factor in an actor\u2019s career, creating immense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,42445,40837,134,47696,34181,344,47695],"class_list":["post-58242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-box-office-performance","tag-coolie","tag-entertainment","tag-lokesh-kanagaraj","tag-male-actors","tag-movies","tag-shruti-haasan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}