Ekta Kapoor Gives Up One Year Salary To Help Her Employees During The Lockdown; Netizens Call Her A Hero!

A lot of celebs are contributing financially or in some other way to help the nation deal with the pandemic. From Shah Rukh Khan and Katrina Kaif to Priyanka Chopra and Akshay Kumar, a lot of celebs have come forward to help the government and various institutions. Now, Ekta Kapoor takes a great step to help her employees as the work at her production house has stopped due to the lockdown.

Kapoor is giving up her one-year salary of Rs 2.5 crore at Balaji Telefilms to ensure her employees dont suffer during the lockdown, which was announced last month owing to the coronavirus pandemic. Ekta took to her social media on Friday to make the announcement.

“The impact of CORONA crisis is huge, unprecedented and multi-pronged. We all need to do things that will ease the hardship of people around us and of our country at large,” her note read.

“It is my first & foremost responsibility to take care of the various freelancers & daily wage workers who work at Balaji & who are going to suffer immense loss due to no shootings in the current scenario and uncertainty over the indefinite period to follow.”