Boss Girl: Presenting Rhea Kapoor! Bollywood’s bulwark against patriarchy, misogyny and sexism

The Kapoor girl has not only come out of the shadow of her superstar father and sister, but is bending the rules and also making new ones

Rhea Kapoor is still basking in the success of Veere Di Wedding (2018) and is looking drop-dead gorgeous doing it! It is not just happiness that has got this glow on her face. She has lost 14 kilos in the last eight months. “I love my job. And when you love your job, you don’t realise how much stress you absorb. But that translates into irregular eating habits. I had the most successful film of my career and I was feeling so low. My weight was pulling me down. So I finally decided to do something about it,” she says.

Veere Di Wedding is Rhea Kapoor‘s third film, and she is very clear that she wants to make films where women can just simply exist and be themselves, without having to go through some cathartic experience; Make-up: Savleen Manchanda; Hair: Hiral Bhatia(The House of Pixels)

This is her first solo photoshoot. Not the one who loves to face the camera, she considers this an attempt to try something out of her comfort zone (The House of Pixels)

“What is this thing with men always being broken and in need of a woman to mend them? Do I look like Hinduja Hospital?”

According to Rhea, for her feminism is not a new marketing exercise but her state of being (The House of Pixels)

“What is a girl film? Hello! Have you ever heard of the term male-centric film? If not, then why ‘woman-centric’? There are two kinds of human only... men and women. Why are men mainstream and women a subgenre? Terms like‘chick flicks’ need to go.”

Rhea points out she is not trying to make a statement with her films. Instead she wants to tell stories that are close to her heart (The House of Pixels)