“Bollywood gave us heroines who were either bechari (helpless), vamp (evil), or sanskaari (perfect wife material). Where were the real South Asian women? The ones who are angry, loud, depressed, healing?” et’s talk about how Bollywood shaped the way we saw South Asian women. Growing up, we were shown heroines who neatly fit into three boxes. First, there was the bechari.You know her — she’s always crying, always in pain, usually poor or oppressed. She gets slapped by her in-laws, suffers in silence, and the audience is expected to love her because she’s… what? A martyr? Because she endures everything and never fights back?She was never allowed to be angry.…