Written by Shubhra Gupta |Nwe Delhi |Updated: December 27, 2018 3:17:58 pm
Leading Ladies: Women who have held their own in Bollywood
The common factor between the women mentioned in the book is that they have had to battle the entrenched boys’ club mindset, whether they belong to the more privileged by class and education end or the makeup artist-stuntwomen end.
No talk of “women in Bollywood” used to be complete without someone piping up dismissively: you can count ’em on the fingers of one hand.
This statement is no longer valid. Over the years, and especially in the last couple of decades, a steady stream of bright, spirited, ambitious women have been making their way into, and making a mark for themselves, in the largest film industry in the world.
Of course, this doesn’t include the marquee names. Those are the names we have coming out of our ears, thanks to gossip rags, TV programmes and celebrity bloggers. But very few know who the stars behind the scenes are, the ones that make the ladies on screen tick, and glow.
In Change Makers, authors Gayatri Rangachari Shah and Mallika Kapoor profile 20 women “transforming Bollywood behind the scenes”. Of them, at least two have very visible public profiles. Anupama Chopra is a well-known film journalist and critic; Kiran Rao is a filmmaker and activist; both belong to powerful producing conglomerates, both power the solidly-programmed Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) film festival.
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