Vidya Balan is one actor who is known to lead the charge of portraying strong characters in female-centric Bollywood films.

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Such has been her credibility that, the 42-year-old actress has bagged a large collection of awards that include one National Film Award, 6 Filmfare Awards, 6 Screen Awards, 4 International Indian Film Academy Awards, and several others.

In order to thrive in an industry where survival is considered to be so difficult, one really needs to have a lot of character, which the actress surely has in plenty.

However, despite her tremendous amount of success, the actress has still been subjected to gender bias.

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Opening up upon the incident that happened over dinner, the Kahaani and Dirty Picture actor revealed how she was once interrogated on her cooking skills.

“I remember people telling me over a dinner that ‘Oh my god, you don’t know how to cook’." said Vidya, while speaking to Times Now Digital.

The actress in her reply said,

‘No, both Sidharth (Roy Kapur) and I don’t know how to cook’,”

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However, Vidya explained how the person then told her that she ‘should know how to cook’.

“I wanted to say, why should it be any different for Sidharth and me?” said Vidya.

The actor also went on to explain how when she was younger, even her mother would ask her to learn to cook, to which she would reply that she'd rather hire a cook or marry a man who can cook.

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Vidya, whose latest film Sherni is set to release on OTT giant Amazon Prime on June 18, said that while everyone faced gender bias, it is definitely more in the case of women. “It is sharper when it comes to women,” said Vidya. 

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