Bollywood's heroines: Not entitled to private lives?

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Kareena Kapoor: The Mrs tag already seems to set to get in the way of Bebo's career, even before she actually marries fiancé Saif Ali Khan. Close on the heels of reports about Kareena walking out of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram Leela came a confession from a source close to the ace director. Mr Bhansali, it seems, did not want a married heroine for his desi version of Romeo And Juliet. So Ms Kapoor, who will soon be seen in Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine, was shown the door.

Bebo is just the latest casualty. Is it really that hard to be an actress as well as a wife and mother in Bollywood? The dipping career graphs of the ladies ahead would prove so.