Intriguing that no media outlet at the time bothered to report on the reigning actresses of Bollywood the same way—after all, like Shah Rukh, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla and Urmila Matondkar had never inherited acting as a career through family. We never heard journalists or audiences in rapture of women who made it on their own. Most reportage on these women was restricted to their beauty and love affairs.
