Shabana Azmi Sheds Light On Changing Scenarios Of Women In Bollywood; Credits Alia Bhatt And Deepika Padukone For It

Veteran actress Shabana Azmi has marked her presence in Bollywood with several powerful performances for five decades now. The actress' choices of doing films have always been an inspiration to many actors. Azmi recently in an interview highlighted the changing scenario for women in Bollywood. She also appreciated the roles played by Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone in the mainstream movies. The Arth actress also spoke about pay disparity and also shared her hopefulness of changing the scenario with more female centric films making business at the box office. 

In an interview with MidDay, Shabana said that substantial parts for senior artistes were only inconceivable ten years ago and also mentioned that she has done an array of roles in the past decade. She said “The scenario has improved vastly. Earlier, it was only left to parallel cinema to give women substantial roles. Today, look at the roles Alia Bhatt and Deepika Padukone are doing in mainstream films. I believe if change has to happen, it should reflect in mainstream cinema, or you are preaching to the converted.”