Parineeti Chopra never wants to play the quintessential Bollywood heroine. Here's why

Parineeti Chopra says that she doesn't want to play the quintessential Bollywood heroine in her films. She added that she feels it is her responsibility to change the stereotype about women in Indian films.

With change in time, the way woman characters are being portrayed in Bollywood is also changing. While earlier, actresses were stereotyped in certain roles and considered just a glamour quotient in films, today they are playing diverse characters depicting varied shades of a woman. Parineeti Chopra is one such actress who has been working towards changing this stereotype, one film at a time. She says that she doesn't want to play the quintessential Bollywood heroine and wants to be called a versatile actress. In an interview with India Today Television, Parineeti Chopra said that she started changing the narrative around women characters ever since her debut film, Ladies vs Ricky Bahl.