She has been sensual and subservient, rustic and cosmopolitan. She is as much at ease in a lavish BBC series as she is in her latest, a Hindi horror comedy blockbuster where she plays a ghost
It is a metaphor for many young women in Bollywood now who are slowly overcoming their fears, choosing to expand their art rather than stay in the groove
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm