'I am open for debate if anyone can show me more range and brilliance of craft than me by any other actress on this planet I promise to give up my arrogance, until then I can surely afford the luxury of pride,' tweeted Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut recently. Here are a handful of actors who can test her claims ahead of the release of 'Dhaakad'.
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In deference to the 'Manikarnika' star's wishes, Meryl Streep and Gal Gadot have been excluded from the list.
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Consider Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Vol 1 &2. Imagine 450 gallons of blood used for filming an action sequence in a movie! And Uma in the lead role!
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.jpg "Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 is the story of super-assassin Kiddo Beatrix aka The Black Mamba who has returned to hunt down his former colleagues for taking everything away from her. Bill (David Carradine), the leader of the squad was her love interest before things went south between them and now revenge is the only thing that keeps Kiddo going.")
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 is the story of super-assassin Kiddo Beatrix aka The Black Mamba who has returned to hunt down his former colleagues for taking everything away from her. Bill (David Carradine), the leader of the squad was her love interest before things went south between them and now revenge is the only thing that keeps Kiddo going.
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It took Quentin Tarantino eight weeks, which is more than the time taken by many productions to wrap up an entire movie, to film Vol 1's climactic 'Crazy 88' sequence -- where Uma Thurman's bride takes on O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) and 88 Yakuza.
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Linda Hamilton | Terminator 2: Sarah Connor is no longer that fragile young lady who needs helping to survive. She knows what is coming and is ready to pull the trigger when required.
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.jpg "Despite the presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger as T-800, Linda's character is hailed among the best action roles ever due to her robust performance. The gunslinger tries to hide her motherly affections along with other emotions behind the bad-ass aura so that John can survive and become the man he is supposed to be.")
Despite the presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger as T-800, Linda's character is hailed among the best action roles ever due to her robust performance. The gunslinger tries to hide her motherly affections along with other emotions behind the bad-ass aura so that John can survive and become the man he is supposed to be.
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Linda's versatility was the catalyst that made Sarah's transformation so convincing. (The shock of seeing the T-800 again after so many years is a fine display of her range). While we have the literally emotionless, painless, Terminators in one hand, Sarah is forced to join forces with the machine who made her life miserable for the greater good and carry on in her tough avatar. Her being powerless to shoot Dyson in front of his family shows how she remains an affectionate human being despite all the traumas from the past.
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Charlize Theron | Mad Max: Fury Road: Thirty years after Miller gave the world 'Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome,' he returned to his post-apocalyptic world and created this exceptional, fearless and poetic masterpiece in 2015 that become a modern classic.
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Though the movie is named after Tom Hardy's survivor specialist hero, it is Theron who steals the show as the steely-eyed, one-armed and aptly named Furiosa. Her fierce and unwavering commitment to her self-assigned mission propels the sparse narrative and invigorates those around her, when death often seems like not just the easier option, but probably the more appealing one, too.
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The movie's plot thickens as Max quickly gets entangled with the warlords of the wasteland to chase after the rogue Furiosa, who managed to escape the Citadel in a lumbering War Rig with the wives of their tyrannical leader Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne).
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Director George Miller has confirmed in an interview that his standalone Furiosa film will be a prequel to the post-apocalyptic action series.
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It will be an injustice not to mention 'Atomic Blonde' just because we have already talked about Charlize Theron already. Cold-War era action drama at its best!
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Milla Jovovich & Co | Resident Evil: The two women are centre to the zombie apocalypse franchise that branches from a superhit video game. Milla's Alice is the protagonist of the film series that started in 2002 before 'The Final Chapter' came out in 2016.
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The series began with 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' (2004). Its story continued with 'Resident Evil: Extinction' (2007), and then 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' (2010), 'Resident Evil: Retribution' (2012), and closed with 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter' (2016). The films told the story of Alice (Milla Jovovich), who is a former security specialist and covert operative who battles the Umbrella Corporation, whose bioweapons have triggered a zombie apocalypse.
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Alice and Michelle's Rain, among others, prove that bad-ass women can carry not a movie but an entire franchise on their shoulders as the Resident Evil series remain the highest-grossing franchise to ever be based on a video game, highest-grossing zombie film series and the highest-grossing horror film series till 2017!
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Kate Beckinsale | Underworld: Another iconic series, 'Underworld' got Kate playing the fearlessly marvellous Selene -- a class-apart fighter among the vampires in their bloody battles against the Lycans. Kate's performance was instrumental in the dark supernatural action flick stamping its position among Hollywood's finest action franchisees.
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Margot Robbie & Co | Birds of Prey: Right after the events of 'Suicide Squad', the Joker throws Harley out of his life, quite literally. In the words of the Cupid of Crime herself, “Being Joker’s girl gave me immunity” but now, she is in trouble.
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We get to see Harley team up with Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to save the life of Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco). and of course, it is all-out action with more than one female lead to look upon!
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Michelle Yeoh | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Wuxia movies are exceptional thanks to martial arts-oriented action choreography. However, CTHD has got a cult following of its own and the women warriors of Qing dynasty from the eighteenth-century are an important part of the plot. (YouTube screengrab)
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'Tomorrow Never Dies' fame Michelle played Yu Shu Lien, who heads a private security company in the movie, while Zhang is a much younger Yu Jialon -- the Governor's daughter. The movie, which also had Chow Yun-fat, Cheng Pei-Pei and Chang Chen in important roles, was the highest-grossing foreign-language film produced overseas in US box office history. (YouTube screengrab)
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Demi Moore | GI Jane: GI Jane over GI Joe any day. Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil is undergoing tough tests to become the first female member of the world's toughest fighting unit. However, it is a little late when O'Neil learns she is being asked to push giant ship fenders up beach dunes among other frills for the selfish motive of a politician. (YouTube screengrab)
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From confronting sexism to surviving tough military drills and exchanging fire with Libyan forces, Demi amuses viewers as the skilled topographical analyst who is hellbent to prove her point, come what may!
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Zoe Saldana | Colombiana: A nine-year-old girl gets a lucky escape after a Columbian kingpin orders the execution of her family. Cataleya vows to make a comeback to the deceiving world of crime to avenge her parents and escapes to US and trains under her uncle to become an assassin. She is 28 years old now and destiny arrives calling at Don Luis Sandoval's doorsteps... (YouTube screengrab)
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Amandla Stenberg is equally good as young Cataleya the protagonist who goes all guns blazing to take down the mighty cartel. While the movie was criticised in some quarters for stereotyping Colombia as a country of violence and brutality, Zoe delivers an entertaining performance as the motivated killer who leaves behind the Cattleya flower as a warning to her arch-nemesis. (YouTube screengrab)
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Scarlett Johansson | MCU: No summaries needed here. The name Black Widow will suffice...
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This article, in no manner, intends to belittle or write off Kangana's acting abilities or her dedication to the profession. While we all respect the effort she puts in bringing characters to life, this list is a polite attempt to present actresses on this planet who are appreciated across borders and have got a cult following due to the same reasons she mentioned in the tweet.
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