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Opinion I Are you looking for a heroine?

Each of us is modelling behaviour for someone else. Luckily, being a hero does not have to be a full-time job

4 min read8 Aug 2020
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For Rekha, the show won’t end

'Rekha: The Untold Story' taps into that irresistible fantasy of knowing a who has been mythologized all her life

2 min read8 Sep 2016
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The heroine look

Louis Vuitton's spring summer womenswear campaign has a man as one of the leading ladies

3 min read23 Jan 2016
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Year-End Issue | The Heroine: 1970-2014

Many lead roles in Hindi cinema went to women this year. As it ends, we look at the Indian film heroine since the 1970s

2 min read27 Dec 2014
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The rebels of Tamil cinema

K. Balachander's heroines, and others from films in the 1970s and 1980s, played complex roles and scandalized the Tamil society of that time

4 min read27 Dec 2014
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The Zeenat spell

She blazed through the 1970s as the hip, Westernized, oomph girl on screen

1 min read27 Dec 2014
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The virginity conundrum

The era of the ideal virgin woman in Hindi cinema has passed. But a heroine asserting her sexual agency is still a rarity

6 min read27 Dec 2014
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Shabana Azmi | The grande dame

A bridge between the New Wave and the formulaic, Shabana Azmi's acting oeuvre is full of risks, contradictions, variety and excellence

4 min read29 Dec 2014
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From Rosy to Manju

Through her dazzling comeback this year, Malayalam actor Manju Warrier has broken the mould that has long defined Kerala's film heroines

6 min read27 Dec 2014
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Heroine economics

Detective, boxer, politicianwomen played a variety of lead roles in 2014. How did that reflect at the box office or alter producers' mindsets?

5 min read27 Dec 2014
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