Bollywood's Best Actresses of 2011

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Like I've said before, it's been a pretty male year in Hindi cinema.
And while that gave me quite a pick of actors for our Best Of list, I had the diametrically opposite problem with hunting out actresses good enough to be singled out for applause.
The first three virtually picked themselves, but the rest of my top 7 (try as I might, I simply couldn't find 10 names) were valiant contenders as well, in a year where Bollywood truly gave its women very little to do.

Here, then, were the ladies who wowed me this year.

Special mentions: Parineeti Chopra (Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl) and Zoa Morani (Always Kabhi Kabhi). As debutants go, both of them showed genuine screen presence and some spark of energy, both lighting up the duds they happened to be in. Making an impact in a bad film always deserves a hand.


Image: Parineeti Chopra and Zoa Morani

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7. Kriti Malhotra



In Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat, Malhotra played a bored housewife, one writing video-letters via a handycam to keep herself sane.
A pretty girl burdened by rather overdone lines, Malhotra brought a lovely degree of earnestness to her performance, bringing her Yasmin crucially alive.




Image: Kriti Malhotra in Dhobi Ghat

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6. Divya Jagdale



Amole Gupte's Stanley Ka Dabba was a schoolboy film, and even as Divya Dutta played the teacher all the boys crushed on, Jagdale sparkled as the prim and strict South Indian science teacher with tragically but realistically little appetite for nonsense.


Image: Divya Jagdale in Stanley Ka Dabba

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5. Poorna Jagannathan



She dry-humps a boy she's just met, smokes like a chimney and doesn't need to be talked into a jewellery-store heist.
Meet the new age heroine, a creature of spunk and sass, played by Jagannathan with an air of being cooler than the film she was in. And the curls didn't hurt. Very nice indeed.


Image: Poorna Jagannathan in Delhi Belly

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4. Swara Bhaskar



Even as we walked out of Tanu Weds Manu regaled by Kangna Ranaut's pronounciation of the word 'vodka,' we were all impressed by the girl who played her buddy, Payal.
A scene in which she lambasts Ranaut for not getting her act together made for a wonderfully memorable outburst.


Image: Swara Bhaskar in Tanu Weds Manu

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