If we talk about the most talked about film in 2024, it will start with Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor’s Stree 2 and probably end with it because till now no film is visible that can achieve this level of success. You know everything about Stree and Stree-2. In both the films, Shraddha Kapoor came on screen as a woman. That’s why people will think of her as a woman and say, but today we are going to introduce you to the first woman of Hindi cinema and she is not Shraddha Kapoor.
If not Shraddha Kapoor then who is the first lady?
You must be wondering who was the first woman before Shraddha to hold the title. This is not a recent incident but a very old one. Actually, in the year 1961, a film named Stree was released. Sandhya was in the lead role in this film. In this way you can say that the first woman of Bollywood or Hindi cinema was Sandhya.
This film titled Stree has been directed by veteran filmmaker V Shantaram. V Shantaram is most recognized by the Hindi cinema audience for the film Do Aankhen Barah Haath. Along with playing the lead role in the film, he also directed it. This was a color film. Sandhya played the female lead role in this film. Apart from these, Rajshree and Mumtaz were seen in important roles.
Talking about the film, it was based on a fantasy based story. Its story was inspired by Kalidas’s play Abhigyan Shakuntalam. The music of the film was given by C Ramchandra while the songs were sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mahendra Kapoor. This film was also India’s official entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 34th Academy Awards. However, the award was given to the Swedish film Through a Glass Darkly.