Bollywood had its different eras and with each era Bollywood is constantly evolving, alongside its actress, there was a saying that, “after a certain age you cannot fit into the heroine section”, but well if that was true then we are witnessing history right now.
Many actresses like Kareen Kapoor Khan and Alia Bhatt all started their career at a very early age, with commercial movies, which are gullible for most of the audience. But now heroines are breaking their boundaries and they are coming out of their comfort zone.
Now that we are talking about female leading movies in Bollywood, then few names comes to our mind instantly like “NH 10”, “Neerja”, “Mardaani”, “Queen” and “Kahani”, all these female leading movies left a remarkable mark in Bollywood, but only some of those came to the limelight. But the transition started from here.
But with time now, these heroines are breaking the boundaries, and doing female centric movies, Kareena who did movies like “Main Prem Ki Dewani Hu” and “Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham”, which recently got a re-release in the UK is now doing more and more serious roles in “The Buckingham Murders” , “Jaane Jaan” and many more.
Similar thing applies for Alia Bhatt as well. She started off with “Student Of The Year”, “Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania” and many more, but now she is doing movies like “Gangubai” and now her upcoming action movie “Jigra”.
With all that put aside all of them started under a big banner and then got a breakthrough.
So can we really say that females are now leading?
If we look into the case of Tripti Dimri then we’ll understand that she did some beautiful movies before “Qala” , “Bulbul” all of them got a round of applause from critics, but didn’t give her a space in the industry until “Animal” was released.
Although, female actresses are now doing a whole another level of acting now, and it is obviously because they are talented but isn’t it also true that after getting a big break they are getting the opportunity, and not based on their previous work or talent.
How much progressive can we call the industry now, if we look into it deeply?