Katrina Kaif: Women’s roles in Bollywood are changing

 

 

Katrina Kaif says that today women characters in films are strong and are not stereotypical. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Actress Katrina Kaif thinks that the portrayal of women in Bollywood films has changed.

“The portrayal of women has changed over a period of time… The kind of roles and films that are being made with women are great. We not only have women-centric films but even in a love story, where hero and heroine have equal role, the characters of women are strong and not stereotypical,” Katrina, 30, told PTI.

“Earlier the roles of women were more or less same, they were repeated, but today there is a difference. And people are loving it,” she said.

L’Oreal Paris brand ambassadors Katrina, Aishwarya Rai and Sonam Kapoor came together to celebrate India’s women achievers at the third edition of the L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards yesterday.

Fifteen women from different walks of life were felicitated. ”We actors work for gratification, money, fame, acknowledgement. These women who won awards do things not for financial reasons or anything,” Katrina said.

Men behind women’s success: Lily Allen

Lily Allen feels men who produced female artists always become known.

Singer Lily Allen feels behind every successful woman in the music industry, there is a man.
The 28-year-old singer, who recently made her pop comeback after four years, insists that women behind popular male artists never get recognised, but those who produced female artists always become known, reported Contactmusic.
“Whether it ‘s Beyonce it’s Jay Z, if it’s Adele it’s Paul Hepworth, with me it was Mark Ronson, same with Amy Winehouse. It’s sort of like you never get that with men. You can’t think of the man behind the man because it’s never a conversation which is bought up. If you’re Ed Sheeran nobody talks about who produced his music,” Allen said.
Although Allen has strong female views, her new album ’Sheezus’ is apparently intended as a tribute to Kanye West which she insists that despite being a parody of his record
‘Yeezus’, it is nothing more than a sign of “respect”.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s Women’s Day outing

Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan addressed a press conference for UNAIDS country mission on HIV on the occasion of International Women's Day (March 8) at the Bhabha Municipal Hospital in Mumbai. (Photo: Varinder Chawla)

Anusha, Divya, Smita Thackeray celebrate Women’s Day

Smita Thackeray launched the Me Mukti Marshalls initiative at an event in Mumbai that was attended by Anusha Dandekar, Divya Khosla Kumar and Shibani Kashyap among others.