Truly nail on the head. This return of the woman-centric Indian cinema is welcome. But in chronicling the same you have missed out the genre of the 70's and 80's, whence some good actors such as Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Rohini Hattangady, Geeta Sen lent a lot of impetus to the ouvre of filmakers such as Girish Karnad, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and quite a few others.
Truly nail on the head. This return of the woman-centric Indian cinema is welcome. But in chronicling the same you have missed out the genre of the 70's and 80's, whence some good actors such as Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Rohini Hattangady, Geeta Sen lent a lot of impetus to the ouvre of filmakers such as Girish Karnad, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and quite a few others.
Intentionally left out as it was not mainstream Bollywood cinema. All the films i have dealt with are mainstream.