Bollywood Bechdel passes

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The blogger Indian Homemaker (<33) is asking commenters to name ten (5 will also do) Bollywood movies (and TV Serials?) which pass ‘The Bechdel Test for women in movies’. Any of you got any? :D

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[scaramouche]

I don't have 5 off the top of my head right now, but Dil Hai Tumhara immediately came to mind.

It's staged pretty much like a typical Bollywood romantic comedy, but the romance is secondary to the familial relationships between three women:
(1) Saritaji, the matriarch of the family;
(2) Nimmi, Saritaji's daughter;
(3) Shalu, the daughter from an extra-marital affair Saritaji's late husband had with another wife.

The trick here is that Shalu was adopted into the family as a baby and as far as everyone knows, Saritaji is her biological mother. As you can imagine, Saritaji doesn't treat Shalu as her own daughter and that makes Shalu starved for affection.

Bonus: Shalu and Nimmi's relationship could have easily been protrayed as a rivalry, but it isn't -- they're genuinely loving and care for each other and talk about things that aren't boys. The synopsis for the film makes it look like they end up fighting each other because of a boy, but that is SO not what happens in the film.

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Oh, that sounds great, thanks!

[asra]

Hmm... I'm not sure if by 'Bollywood' you mean the mainstream, big-budget films, but anyway. Fire is about two women falling in love with each other, 15 Park Avenue is about a woman and her schizophrenic sister, Dor is about a woman whose husband has accidentally killed a man, and who goes incognito to meet the dead man's widow, and Chak De India is about an all-girls' hockey team.

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Doesn't have to be big-budget!

I love Fire and Chak De, and those other two sound awesome.