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Kahaani turns 10: Vidya Balan's film is one that changed the narrative on how women are portrayed in Bollywood
Kahaani, starring Vidya Balan in the lead role released a decade back and changed how people look at women in Bollywood.
Vidya Balan and changing the narrative with Kahaani
Vidya Balan is an actress who set the perfect example of the various shades of women (the sensous, the raw or the fierce) with her movies a decade ago. In 2011, she played the sensual seductress with a powerful backstory by playing Silk Smitha in The Dirty Picture and a year later, she forced people to believe her story as a very pregnant Vidya Bagchi who is in dilemma, in Sujoy Ghosh's. She broke down the walls and how! Today, we take a look at how Kahaani changed the narrative on how women are portrayed in Bollywood...
1/5
A make-believe story
When you watch Kahaani, Vidya Bagchi fools you just as much as any character in the film. She has a clear intent and motive for everything she does, which beautifully unfolds as we reach the end scene of this beautiful film.
2/5
A film that leaves you with many questions
Why was Vidya Bagchi attacked? Who is Bob Biswas? Why did inspector Satya not take any action against her after knowing the truth? You are left with many questions after Kahaani ends, which is an element that has intrigued people for ages at an end.
3/5
Vidya playing the lead role was pretty impactful
In 2011, Vidya Balan became this sensuous actress everyone wanted to see on-screen. While she grooved to 'Ooh La La' in The Dirty Picture, a year later people uttered 'Udi Baba, e ki holo (What just happened!)' when they saw her and were left shocked during Kahaani's ending. It is what brought the film and Vidya on a greater platform.
4/5
Women are Goddesses and Kahaani proves exactly that
Kahaani is quite symbolic as it happens to also prove that women are indeed Goddesses. Vidya is the very loving wife till she meets the person who has done her wrong in life. That is the time when she reveals a side that nobody would ever want to see. It is also out of the love for her husband. When one goes back in Indian mythology, they would understand how and why Goddess Parvati took up the Durga avatar and they will then be able to understand how Vidya Bagchi's character is sketched on the same lines, without offending anyone, which is a pretty huge deal and one that does deserve the applauds that came its way.
5/5
Before Mardaani, there was Kahaani
Sujoy Ghosh's Kahaani actually paved the way for the changing narrative on women in Bollywood. People started to take female actors more seriously after this film's release in 2012. Kahaani actually set a strong base for women-centric films, so much so that two years later, in 2014, the trend actually took off after Rani Mukerji's Mardaani release. We then saw Queen, NH10, Piku and Raazi among many films releasing, all of which paved the way for women's betterment in the industry and honestly, there's nothing we like seeing more than both the genders be at par with one another.