WOMENS DAY SPECIAL

FROM RAAZI TO MARDAANI: GET A COMPLETE LIST OF WOMEN-LED FILMS

Women Led Movies

Bollywood focuses on mail film stars for a longest time. Since last two decades , women centric films are making money at the box office that has changed the dynamics of filmmaking.

Closing the Gap of Payment

In this Bollywood  film industry women are often relegated to stereotypical roles and subequently paid much lower than male actors. The rising commercial success of women led film has served  to bump up the pay cheques for the female leads.

Production Houses on Restoring Women led Movies

As audience lapping up women- centric movies, the prducers might be at the new age production houses as Clean State Filmz  or established industry stalwars as Bhansali Productions become enthusiastically restoring women-led  movies.

Fashion

Fashion was a women-led drama film that features Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, and Mugdha Godse in the lead roles

Raazi

Ali Bhatt has killed the character by depicting  a covert  spy in a  film that has expertly balanced the line in between nationalism and patriotism.

Mardaani

This is Rani Mukherjee's upcoming crime thriller  film in which she has appeared as an officer of the Mumbai Crime Branch. Mukherjee maintains the vulneribility to her performance that's often missing  from such roles that makes it a hit film.

English Vinglish

In Bollywood the original female superstars Sridevi came back to the silver screen as a demure housewife  searching for  respect in Gauri Shinde's directorial debut film English Vinglish

NH10

Anushka Sharma came back as a producer with this gritty crime drama where she has  also played  the protagonist, Meera  who is a  young  woman  battling  to survive  the  goons she  meets on a highway.

Queen

The story is about a jilted bride to be embarks  alone on her honeymoon as an escape but makes confidence along the way, The tale  never fails to bring smiles to your face and warmth your heart

Kahaani

Kahaani is Vidya Balan's  one of the great  film  that features Balan in the lead roles. The film reveals  the  society perception  towards. women

Highway

In this film Alia Bhatt left the audience  mesmerized with her performance who played the role of a victim  of child sexual abuse and got freedom with her kidnapper.

Neerja

Neerja is a biopic. Ram Madhvani's Neerja features Sonam Kapoor. In 1986 ,  air hostess Neeraj Bhanot died on protecting the crew and passengers of  the hijacked  Pan Am Flight 73.

No One Killed Jessica

The film features Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan in lead roles. Both of the actors played the characters  diametrically opposite in nature but quite similar in intent.

Thappad

Taapsee Pannu has appeared  for the lead role. The story follows on domestic violence and highlifgrs  how it has permeated across economic  classes to affect women as it's rooted in misogony and patriarchy.

Gangubai Kathiawadi

The  biopics belongs to a cluttered  genre. the performance of Alia Bhatt is really great that has surpassed the monotonic portrayal of both sex workers and crime lords in Bollywood.

Important Movies without Limelight

Not, all the women-led movies  going to work. The reasons  range  from negative  public  sentiment  to a weak storyline to the perception in it's Indie movie, 'Margarita With A Straw.

Past Examples

 The women-led dramas have  got the popularity recently, this is not  an entirely new phenoemenoon. The  classics as Khhon Bhari Mang (starring Rekha), Mirchi masala ( Starring  Smita Patil), Arth, (starring  Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi), and Chandni ( Sridevi) examples of women -led dramas from the past.