Women’s Day 2020: Best Women-Centric Bollywood Movies To Watch Today

Top 10 Female-Centric Bollywood Movies
Top 10 Female-Centric Bollywood Movies

From Mardaani to Manikarnika, a look at best women-centric Bollywood movies that showed women empowerment.

Gone are the days when the movies use to depend on the Hero for it to be a Hit. With times evolved, audience prefers female-centric movies. The actresses of Bollywood have started a new trend of female-centric films which looks like is on the verge of trending.

On International Women’s Day 2020, have a look at the list of top 10 women-centric Bollywood movies recently released and loved by the audience.

Best women-centric Bollywood movies

1) Fashion: Madhur Bhandarkar’s reality-based bold film was hugely applauded. Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and Mughda Godse were the lead actresses of the movie who portrayed the roles of struggling ramp models. They did complete justice to their roles. The film won National Award and was declared one of the most successful films of 2008.

Top 10 female centric films of Bollywood : Fashion
Fashion Poster

2) 7 Khoon Maaf: Priyanka Chopra did another female-centric film with seven actors of Bollywood who played her husbands in the movie. Though Vishal Bharadwaj’s directorial movie failed at Box office, Priyanka was hugely appreciated for her intense role.

Top 10 female centric films of Bollywood : 7 Khoon Maaf
7 Khoon Maaf Poster

3.) No One Killed Jessica: The powerhouse of acting Rani Mukherji and Vidya Balan were fresh on-screen together. The film was the first hit of the year 2011. It was a political crime thriller and set the Box Office ringing with cash.

Top 10 female centric films of Bollywood : No One Killed Jessica
No One Killed Jessica Poster

4) The Dirty Picture: Milan Luthria’s biggest hit of his career came with Vidya Balan starrer The Dirty Picture. Vidya portrayed the role of Southern actress Silk Smitha. Though the film also starred Naseeruddin Shah and Emraan Hashmi, Vidya overshadowed their role with her acting and seductiveness. Vidya won the Best Actress Award for the movie.

5) Kahaani: This is Vidya’s third female-centric movie and she did great with this one too. Kahaani solely rested on Vidya Balan’s shoulder. She impressed the audience with his superb acting. She again won the best actress award for this movie.

Top 10 female centric films of Bollywood : Kahaani
Kahaani Poster

6) English Vinglish: Sridevi made a comeback on the silver screen with this movie and she stunned the audience with her performance. Even though the director of the movie, Gauri Shinde marked her debut with English Vinglish,  the audience loved every bit of the movie.

Top 10 female centric films of Bollywood : English Vinglish
English Vinglish movie poster

7) Queen: Kangana Ranaut’s second female-centric went on to become a blockbuster. Queen earned many rave reviews from the masses and the songs London Thumakda and O Gujariya were a huge hit.

Top 10 female centric films of Bollywood : Queen
Queen Poster

8) Mardaani and Mardaani 2: RaniMukherjii made her comeback with Mardaani. She played a tough cop in the movie who fight against female child trafficking gang in the city. Rani delivered a power-packed performance in the film. She follows it up an equally good sequel in Mardaani 2.

10 Latest Female Centric Bollywood Movies - Mardaani
Rani in lead character in Mardaani

9) Mary Kom: Starring Priyanka Chopra, Mary Kom is an Indian biographical drama on life and challenges faced by Mary Kom in her career. The film depicts her life journey while she won an Olympic bronze medal and won female world boxing Championship 5 times.

13 Best Bollywood Biopics Till Date- Mary Kom
Mary Kom Poster

10) Neerja: Sonam Kapoor’s career-best performance to date. Neerja was a biopic on air hostess Neerja Bhanot was shot and killed while saving hundreds of passengers on board Pan Am Flight 73, which was hijacked by terrorists on 5 September 1986. The movie was a big hit at the Box Office.

Top 10 Female-Centric Bollywood Movies - Neerja
Sonam Kapoor in Neerja

11) Raazi: Alia Bhatt played an undercover agent in this spy thriller directed by Meghna Gulzar. She steals the show in a character which demands tough mental and acting strength. Raazi earned over Rs 194 crores (US$27 million) worldwide to emerge as one of the highest-grossing Indian films featuring a female protagonist.

12) Manikarnika: A biopic based on Jhansi Ki Rani Laxmibai features Kangana Ranaut in the lead role. No points to guess that she delivered a power-packed performance and carried the whole movie on her strong shoulders.

best women centric films - Manikarnika

13) Chhappak: Meghna Gulzar’s Chhapaak is based on the story of acid attack survivor Laxmi Aggarwal. Deepika Padukone delivered a very good performance as Laxmi Aggarwal. The film was well-received by the critics.

Almost all of the above-mentioned women-centric films were decent hits at the Box Office. Moreover, these movies had power-packed performances by the leading ladies.

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