However, the rumours can now be laid to rest, considering the Kolkata Film Festival was all about celebrating cinema, Amitabh couldn’t stop talking about the shifting portrayal of female characters in the movies related to the rights and social progress of women in the country. And while he initiated this brilliant thought, he also happened to draw instances right from Nita, from Ritwik Ghatak’s classic Meghe Dhaka Tara, to Rosy played by Waheeda Rehman in Guide and Tabu in Vishal Bhardwaj‘s Haider. However, the highlight of his speech was when he further went on to mention Aishwarya’s character from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as he said, “Ki & Ka, for instance, was of completely reversal roles where she married a man who took care of her home. And then more recently there was a very liberated, a divorced woman Saba in Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil who turned the tables on men when she told the lover, ‘Main kisiki zaroorat nahi, khwaish banna chahti hu.”
Guess that finally rubbished the rumours on how the Bachchans are not against Aishwarya’s bold decision with Ae Dil Hai Mushkil.
