Deepika, Priyanka, Vidya Balan, Rani: Modern Glamorous Indian Woman

As Indian society sheds its conservative garb to don a modern, new age avtar, the Bollywood actress is too undergoing a makeover.

Today she is no longer the shy, don’t touch me kind of woman who does not let go of any opportunity to shed the tears.

Now she is bold, brazen, independent and is not afraid to live life on her own terms. Deepika Padukone in the film’ Love Aj Kal’plays the role of a modern woman who has an affair with Saif Ali Khan and breaks up with him when work takes her to India and Saif has to stay back.

The break-up, unlike in other films was not a sad affair.Instead, they threw a party and celebrated their break-up.

She gets married to her boss in the later part of the film after dating him for one year, only to realize that her heart aches for Saif only.

In the film’Fashion’Priyanka Chopra, played the role of a sexy model who lives in with her boyfriend and is aggressive about her work. She even falls in love with a much married man in the later part of the film and even gets pregnant. She gets the baby aborted when she realizes that her work might get suffered if she decides to have the baby.

Later on she comes face to face with her first boyfriend only to realize that he has moved on and it is time for her to move on too.

She once again gets back to her life by walking at a ramp show and the film does not end in a conventional manner, showing her all happy by getting engaged to a man.

Instead, it shows her going to a foreign land all alone and confidently declaring that she has taken full advantage of the second chance that life has given her.

In Dostana, the heroine lives in without two men pretending to be gay and later walks off with a man whose wife had left him.

She is shown wearing modern dresses, partying at night, managing her career as well as taking time to get to know her boyfriend’s son previous marriage.

In the recent film’Ishqia’the lead character played by Vidya Balan is the story of a woman who lives in a village and wears only Indian clothes. She is shown displaying her boldness not through her clothes, but through her actions. She flirts with two men and enjoys it at the same time.

She is not afraid of taking revenge when she realizes that her husband wanted to kill her and later walks away with one of the men with whom she was flirting.

Even in the film Hum Tum, the lead characters have a one night stand. While Rani was showing being unapologetic about it, Saif, in a somewhat opposite manner was suffering from guilty pangs.

All these films show the typical Indian actress in a very different way and in a realistic manner. We see no purpose for complaining and are looking forward to watch modern portrayal  of Indian women.