Some leading ladies however accepted the shift in the image as a challenge. Meena Kumari played sister to Dharmendra in Kaajal where her sister-in-law Padmini is resentful of the brother-sister bond. Some decades laterNaseerudin Shah played an obsessive brother to Ramya in Chahat and Shah Rukh made a dominating, over-possessive twin bro to Aishwarya Rai in Josh.
Popular cinema has always been defined by the image of the ruling superstar and from the 70s to the 90s Amitabh Bachchan identified as the family man forever fighting a moral and social battle in all his movies- Majboor, Adalat or Trishul, Shahenshah,Agneepath or Aaj Ka Arjun was responsible for uplifting the image of mother and sister in society. The mother and the sister lost significance in mainstream movies when Amitabh Bachchan stopped playing the conventional hero.
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