Rajat Kapoor feels Hindi cinema lost its ‘feminine’ hero with Amitabh Bachchan’s Angry Young Man in 1970s: ‘Only violent men on screen today’

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Director Rajat Kapoor argues Hindi cinema lost its gentle, feminine-sided heroes after Amitabh Bachchan's Angry Young Man persona emerged in the 1970s. Earlier actors like Shashi Kapoor and Rajesh Khanna embodied gentleness. Shah Rukh Khan briefly revived this trend in the 1990s but now plays violent characters. Kapoor attributes this shift to urbanization and societal changes, noting cities require violent survival instincts.

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