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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...

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Bollywood

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...

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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...

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Bollywood

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 ...

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Kaleidoscope

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 ...

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Hollywood

'Star Wars' Embraces Girl Power With New Heroine Stories, Toys

"Star Wars" is beefing up its girl power through a new series of animated short movies featuring the sci-fi saga's heroines including Princess Leia, Rey and Jyn Erso. Walt ...

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Bollywood

Kareena Kapoor Khan: In Our Country, Everyone Has An Opinion

She's quite literally unstoppable. It's been over three months since her baby boy, Taimur Ali Khan Pataudi, arrived. Even during the course of her pregnancy, she was among ...

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Festivals

A Festival Of Films For Her

The heroine’s role in India’s first ever film was not played by a woman, but a man. In Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913), the character of Quee...

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Bollywood

Amitabh Bachchan: Now, 50 Percent Of Work Force On Sets Is Female

At the launch of book 'Once Upon A Time In India - A Century Of Indian Cinema', written by film critic-cum-author Bhawana Somaaya, Amitabh, asked by her about the changes t...

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Alternative Entertainment

A Comic Heroine That’s Fighting The Evil Skin Whitening Industry

India’s beauty industry thrives on the country’s ugly obsession with fair complexions and skin lightening products. Prejudice against darker skinned people, esp...

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