Yesterday, Pink star Taapsee Pannu was spotted at the India Today Woman Summit and Awards where she fearlessly speaks her mind about the ways of the film industry towards women.

Taapsee said, "I have been asked to slash my rates because the hero's last film didn't do well and the budget was limited, or the producer's last film didn't do well. So, I was told, 'Either you walk out or slash your price'. "How I worked around it was when I started with Hindi films, I made sure I am going to do whatever it takes to be not-replaceable. How? "Have a name for yourself, do the kind of films you want to and do it in a way that they have no other way but to notice. And when you go back, the same people will wait in a queue to get you at double the price probably."

"Without taking names, tables have turned and I have gone to the same people at double the price, and they stood in a line waiting for my dates, only because I decided to fight like a girl," added the actress on in reality the same happened to her. On people who first turned her down, she said, "I am warm and welcoming, and I have even invited them to my next film's premiere."

On doing more girly film, she said, "I like dressing up. Doing brave-girl, hard roles was my way of getting them to notice me. Now, they look at me and think, 'Oh, she's a pretty face, she can dress up too'."

"In Bollywood, they're seeing me as the girl next door, and I love that tag. But I'm trying to balance it out with my choice of roles. I'm really looking forward to playing a psycho-trippy woman, maybe with a split personality," she added.

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