Deepika Padukone-Sandeep Reddy Vanga row: Vidya Balan shares her thoughts on 8-hour shift, ‘I think it’s very important that…’

Actress Vidya Balan has joined the discussion on flexible working hours in the film industry, especially for mothers. This comes after the recent controversy between Deepika Padukone and Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Spirit over her request for an eight-hour workday. Recently, Deepika has embraced motherhood and has been asked to balance her schedule, which the filmmaker was not willing to agree to. As things didn't work out between the two, Deepika Padukone was replaced by Triptii Dimri for the film.

 

What did Vidya Balan say?

 

Many celebrities have opened up to the 8-hour shift debate, and Vidya Balan has also shared her thoughts on it. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter India, Vidya talked about the importance of having flexible working hours in the early stages of motherhood and said, 'There is conversation about how mothers need to have an option to work for fewer hours, flexible hours, right? And I think that's fair.'

 

What are Vidya's thoughts on flexible working hours?

 

Continuing with the conversation, the actress added, 'Every industry is adopting those practices so that we don't lose out on new mothers, or women in the early years of them having children, so I think it's very important that we do have flexible working hours for women.'

 

Meanwhile, Vidya Balan expressed her thoughts on working hours and shift and said that she is not and mother and can work for 12 hours and added, 'I am not a mother, so I have all the time in the world to be doing a 12-hour shift.'

 

On work front, Vidya was last seen in 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3' with Kartik Aaryan and Madhuri Dixit. She will be seen in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj biopic alongside Riteish Deshmukh.