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Part of the reason of the film industry going down is the Khan ego. I am a fan, but I have to admit, none of them can share the limelight. They all want to be larger than life heroes. Everyone else was trying to be like the Khans and women got sidelined.
We are again seeing a shifting trend towards better stories. Leads like Ayushman Khurana or Randeep Hooda who don't mind sharing the limelight or letting women take it.
While we aped the west in some aspects, we never seem to have embraced the positives. Western music, cinema, and fashion was blindly thrust on Indian audiences as "cool".
Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Meryl Streep, all get so much reverence despite their age. They continue to get cast in substantial roles. Forty year old men don't play teenagers. They play their age. Angeline Jolie, Sigourney Weaver, Sandra Bullock and the likes did action flicks and were embraced by men and women as action stars. The younger generation has like Emma Watson, Emma Stone, Anna Kendrick, Rooney Mara, Anne Hathaway are making a name for their bright personalities as well as their roles.
While I do admit that female sexuality and sex in general needs a positive outlook and better place in Indian cinema - I don't understand why Bollywood directors are focused on kissing and skin as modernization of Bollywood. Why can't they take other positives from Hollywood? It is changing with films like Gulaab Gang, Mardaani and such - but we need more.
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