Richa Chadha on Bollywood’s feminist awakening: “We still have a long way to go”

Richa Chadha on Bollywood’s feminist awakening: “We still have a long way to go”

Generations of actresses, from Suchitra Sen and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to Mahi Gill, have played the demure Paro in the various film adaptations of Devdas, a ‎1917 Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay novel. But “till now, we’ve only seen Paro pining for her lover, moping, and getting married to someone else,” Bollywood actress Richa Chadha told Quartz.…