A Heroine For Our Times

The Girl With The DragonTattoo was a huge success story in publishing, that needs more stars like Lisbeth Salander. Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson created a her...

Of Pehredaars and Predators

Since July, Pehredaar Piya Ki, a new television show being broadcast on Sony TV channel has been repeated derided for controversial content, and is now being voted by users...

Atomic Blonde

Cast: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy

Direction: David Leitch<...

Vidya Balan Makes A Statement For Gender Equality As She Posts An Endearing Video With Dad

We all love Vidya Balan for a zillion reasons. But as they say a good horse comes from a great stable. The woman has shattered myths about the roles played by Bollywood her...

In The Line Of Fire

Bestselling author Danielle Steel’s new book Dangerous Games has a tough female protagonist, the kind who is still not all that common in fiction; mostly the st...

Shabana: Long Way From Being Perfect, But A Start Has Been Made

Veteran actor Shabana Azmi is quite impressed with the kind of roles that female actors are portraying in films these days. She says, in the past, heroines were merely addi...

An Ordinary Heroine: Mary Jane Review

Plays whose subjects can be summed up in one word—abortion, divorce, Trump—are prone to be preachy. They needn’t be, though, and Amy Herzog’s &ldquo...

Powerful Figures In Bollywood Films Confront Violence Against Women In India

At the climax of “Anaarkali of Arrah,” the new Bollywood film about a folk artist who specializes in suggestive dances and bawdy songs, the brash heroine calls ...

Devious Heroines

Female protagonists in novels are getting to be increasingly dangerous; and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl seems to have triggered off a trend of the nasty heroine. Sarah ...