Cover Story BOLLYWOOD HEROINES Return Sirensof THE
Cover Story BOLLYWOOD HEROINES Return SirensOF THE Bollywood’s women get better roles and bigger brands. In 2012, they will go from being beautiful Barbies to power performers. By Nishat Bari pregnant Vidya Balan, 34, slowly walks down a bustling Park Street in Kolkata even as director Sujoy Ghosh and his camera crew struggle with milling crowds to capture the dejection of a woman in desperate search of her husband in Kahaani. The Acrowds wait for the shot to be taken but such is the rush to get closer to the screen Silk Smitha that Ghosh and his team have already been beaten up once. The Dirty Picture grossed Rs 114 crore worldwide in 2011 but Balan had already es- tablished herself as the hero: No One Killed Jessica with Rani Mukherjee made Rs 36 crore in January 2011. Bollywood women have not looked back since Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion in 2008. The film saw Priyanka Chopra, 29, sleeping her way to the top in the film, Kangna Ranaut,24, dying of a drug overdose, and Mugdha Godse, 25, the cleanest living model of the group, marrying a gay D KAREENAKAPOOR She was a quirky hairstylist from Los Angeles, Jun Riana Braganza in Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu opposite Imran Khan, is a Pakistani agent in Agent Vinod 1 KAREENA with Saif, and teams up with Aamir Khan and KAPOOR IN THE FORTHCOMING Rani Mukherjee for thriller psychological Talaash. HEROINE Then it’s time to play superstar on the skids Mahi Gill in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine. Mar USP Beautiful, professional, can act.
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