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Why Mughal-e-Azam's Anarkali is woman of our times     Her message is very clear : The soft power of a woman can overwhelm the brute           force of a powerful emperor ( Also published in daily O, http://www.dailyo.in/arts/akbar-anarkali-womens-day-indian-women/story/1/16030.html  ) Post-Independence Indian cinema can be broadly divided into three eras: the first being the '50s and the '60s,  the era of socialism represented largely by the characters played by Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar; atrocities against the poor dominated the stories of their films. Then came the '70s and the '80s, the era of industrial strikes and political turmoil; the Angry Young Man was the Bollywood icon who aptly represented the anti-establishment mood. In the '90s and beyond, the country saw a political shift towards consumerism and globalisation.  DDLJ  became the seminal work of the era. Times changed, as did filmmaking techniques and the