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Deepika Padukone, seen as Queen Rani Padmavati on the poster for the 2018 Bollywood hit, "Padmavaat."   © Viacom 18 Motion Pictures and Bhansali Productions
The Big Story

Bollywood's gender revolution: Women are rewriting the rules

Exclusive Nikkei data analysis points to slow but significant change in India's prolific film industry

JUI CHAKRAVORTY, SURBHI BHATIA, KIRAN SHARMA and SAYAN CHAKRABORTY | India

(On International Women’s Day 2023, Nikkei Asia examines the evolving gender landscape in Bollywood - and spotlights the pathbreaking women who are driving change in Asia's most prolific film industry.)

In the last ten minutes of the 2018 Hindi blockbuster"Padmaavat,"Bollywood superstar Deepika Padukone’s character makes a stirring statement. 

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