Sister’s are doin it for themselves series

I was reading the reviews for No One Killed Jessica and I kept seeing the same things over and over again: Amazing film, great storytelling, great acting but fears that it won’t do well as people won’t see a film where the two leads are female.  Mentality like that makes me question if the critics are truly aware of the viewing public as well as underestimating the youth of today who have a much more open mind than the older generations.  I understand the relevance of the comments if it had been a small film with unknown actors and an unknown director but Raj Kumar Gupta had previously made the brilliant film Aamir.  The two leads were the fantastic Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan.

The Indian film industry and film media tends to put more focus on the male actors.  There are the Khans: Saif Ali Khan, Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan as well as others such as Hrithik Roshan.  These guys have been around for a while now while there is plenty of focus on them there is also plenty of focus on the newer crop of talent such as Ranbir Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Imran Khan, Abhay Deol, John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan.  This post is going to focus on the women I feel are an important, some have been in the industry for a while and some are only a couple of years into their film career.