Hindi/Indian Movies With Female Leads

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Hindi cinema is obviously male dominated, like even more than in other major film nations I think. But from time to time there are these pearls with female leads or at least with equal parts to the male protagonists, I will add those too. Unfortunately I don't know many south movies, I will add them tho after I've watched any or get recommens.

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Three daughters (1961) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
Teen Kanya
director: 萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊 actor: Chandana Banerjee / Nripati Chatterjee
other title: 三个女儿 / Teen Kanya
The first story is about Nanda, a young man who leaves Calcutta to work as a postmaster in an isolated malaria-infested village. The postmaster is looked after by a young orphan girl, Ratan. His only solace in the village is in teaching Ratan how to read and write. The second story is about a student, Amulya, who returns to his village after finishing his exams. His widowed mother is very anxious for him to marry, and has already picked out a girl. He rejects his mother's choice and, being forced to choose some girl, marries a lively tomboy who is not ready to give up her freedom.
Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
सत्यम शिवम सुंदरम
director: Raj Kapoor actor: Shashi Kapoor / Zeenat Aman
other title: 虔誠之美 / 虔诚之美
Rajeev falls in love with Roopa, a beautiful singer who hides the fact that half her face is disfigured. However, he soon discovers her secret after marriage and begins to ignore her.
Fire (1996) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Fire
7.2 (9 ratings) director: 迪帕 梅塔 (Deepa Mehta) actor: Shabana Azmi / Nandita Das
other title: 爱火 /
由加籍印裔女导演迪帕.梅塔执导,曾获芝加哥国际影展奖。因内容表现在打破传统的 “性禁锢"方面,所以公映时竟触发狂潮,成为众矢之的,导演本人亦遭受恐吓。剧情介绍新德里一个年轻美貌姑娘嫁入中产店主家庭后,因丈夫沉缅于香港功夫,并迷恋于中国艳女而受到冷落。而不育的大嫂亦因丈夫参与 “灵修"倍感寂寞,两人同病相怜遂成闺中好友,并发展成床上鸳鸯。后来东窗事发,迫使两人离家出走。该片在印度来讲,内容较为惹火,但比起香港片,似乎仍显平谈,而且剧情颇为噱头,算不上佳作。不过对女性情欲描写极为细致,有一定的文艺剧情趣味。该片还入选香港 “印度多面睇"十大印度影片。
Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) runs a family business that sells takeout food and which also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha (Shabana Azmi), his brother Jatin (Javed Jaffrey), their ailing mother Biji (Kushal Rekhi) and their manservant Mundu (Ranjit Chowdhry), all living under the same roof. Jatin, at the insistence of Ashok and their mother, Biji, agrees to marry the beautiful Sita (Nandita Das) in an arranged marriage, although he is actually in love with Julie (Alice Poon), a Chinese-Indian. At first glance, you see a happy middle-class family going through the normal paces of everyday life. However, as the layers are slowly peeled back, we find a simmering cauldron of discontent within the family, with almost every family member living a lie. Both marriages in the family turn out to be emotionally empty, without love or passion. While Ashok is an ascetic who has taken a vow of celibacy, Jatin is a handsome ladies' man who is still openly seeing Julie even after his marriage to Sita. Ashok has pledged his total devotion to a religious holy man, a swami, in order to purge his life of worldly desires and temptations. Radha, bound by her sense of duty to her husband, agrees to go along with his wishes. As you can imagine, with both husbands ignoring their spouses' emotional and sexual needs (albeit with reasons that are totally opposite from each other), it is only a matter of time before Radha and Sita look to one another for comfort and to satisfy their own passions. In this environment, it is only natural that Sita and Radha become fast friends, and, in time, much more than that. But their love is not without its share of painful obstacles.
The Seedling (1977) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
अंकुर
director: 夏姆·班尼戈尔 actor: Shabana Azmi / Sadhu Meher
other title: 籽苗 / अंकुर
Laxmi lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya, who is a deaf-mute. Both husband and wife work for the wealthy landlord. The landlord's son, Surya, has to cancel his studies and return home to look after the estate, as well as formalize his marriage to Saroj, the girl he was compelled to get married to when he was very young. Shortly thereafter Kishtaya is apprehended stealing toddy from the fields, is severely beaten, left senseless, and when he recovers he absconds, leaving Laxmi alone to fend for herself. Surya finds her attractive and starts an intimate relationship with her, much to the chagrin of the rest of the family. Things only get worse when Saroj moves in to live with Surya - compelling him to make a final decision about a visibly pregnant Laxmi.
The Ruins (1984) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
खंडहर
director: Mrinal Sen actor: 沙巴娜·阿兹米 / 纳西鲁丁·沙阿
other title: खंडहर / 克漢達爾
Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
Charulata (1964) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
চারুলতা
7.8 (16 ratings) director: 萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊 actor: 松米特拉·查特吉 / Madhabi Mukherjee
other title: 孤独的妻子 / চারুলতা
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
Devi (1960) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Devi
8.0 (5 ratings) director: 萨蒂亚吉特·雷伊 actor: Chhabi Biswas / 松米特拉·查特吉
other title: 女神 / The Goddess
A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.
From the Heart (1998) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
दिल से
director: 曼尼·拉特纳姆 actor: 沙鲁克·汗 / 玛尼沙·柯伊拉拉
other title: 真心实意 / दिल से
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
Kahaani (2012) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kahaani
7.3 (28 ratings) director: 苏乔伊·高什 actor: 薇迪亚·巴兰 / 帕拉姆巴拉塔·查特吉
other title: 无畏之心 / 追击枕边谜(港)
2012 film by Sujoy Ghosh
Salaam Bombay! (1988) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Salaam Bombay!
8.8 (11 ratings) director: 米拉·奈尔 actor: 沙菲克·赛义德 / Irfan Khan
other title: 早安孟买 / 街童
After destroying his older brother's motorbike in retaliation for his constant bullying, 11-year-old Krishna is sent to a traveling circus to earn money to pay for the bike's repairs, but soon winds up in the streets of Bombay's poorest slums. There, he befriends the drug dealer Chillum and young prostitute Sola Saal, while trying to make enough money at a neighborhood tea stall to repay his debt to his family.
Devdas (2002) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Min reol Douban WikiData
Devdas
8.3 (48 ratings) director: 桑杰·里拉·彭萨里 actor: 沙鲁克·汗 / 艾西瓦娅·雷
other title: 宝莱坞生死恋 / 德夫达斯
In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.
Lajja (2001) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB Skybridge
लज्जा
director: Rajkumar Santoshi actor: Rekha / 亚尼·卡普
other title: Lajja - Die Schande / 羞耻
Vaidehi (Manisha Koirala) gets married to Raghuvir (Jackie Shroff), an NRI. Suffering the agony of an unhappy marriage, she decides to run away from him when she learns that she is pregnant and he wants to take the child away from her. In her pursuit for freedom, she meets Mythili (Mahima Chaudhury) a bride-to-be, Janaki (Madhuri Dixit) a theatre artist and Ramdulari (Rekha) a village midwife - all of whom are victims of male chauvinism. They however refuse to be put down and fight for their rights.
Barfi! (2012) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Barfi!
8.3 (26 ratings) director: 阿努拉格·巴苏 actor: 佩丽冉卡·曹帕拉 / 兰比尔·卡普尔
other title: 바르피 / バルフィ!人生に唄えば
Set in the 1970s, the film focuses on Barfi, a deaf-mute young man from Darjeeling, and his relationships with two lovely girls, the rich Shruti and the autistic Jhilmil .
Straight From the Heart (1999) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
7.4 (5 ratings) director: 桑杰·里拉·彭萨里 actor: 阿贾耶·德乌干 / 萨尔曼·汗
other title: 何日君能知我心 / Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
A newly-wed man discovers that his wife is in love with another man and decides to unite them. Ignoring the ridicule he might have to face for this, he takes his wife to Italy in search of her love.
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