Women's Equality Day: Thappad to Sherni, revisit these films to connect with strong female protagonists

Women's Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. So why should we be celebrating it? Well, because the fight for equality never really ends for women regardless of which milieu they may inhabit. On this Women's Equality Day, watch these rare films that depict women as beings with agency, self-belief and yes, a hunger for equality.

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