In Bollywood, the career span of actresses is almost half of that of actors. In the last two decades, we have seen a series of different reigning Bollywood queens, from Sridevi and Deepika Padukone-Nene to Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra. However, our leading actors have pretty much remained the same with actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan still ruling the box office. So why is it that our actors are able to stay in the industry for so many decades and our actresses retire, or rather fade away, every 5 years?
