Dia Mirza is on the verge of completing two decades in the Hindi film industry. She made her Bollywood debut in 2001 with Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein and went on to do films like Tumsa Nahin Dekha, Love Breakups Zindagi, Sanju, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, and more recently, Thappad.

And now, in an interview with The Times of India, she spoke about how the fraternity continues to be a male-dominated one, and how 50-year old actors are working opposite 19-year old actresses. She said, "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."