Rinki Roy BhattacharyaMaithili Rao drifted into writing on cinema after a stint as lecturer of English. Hobby turned to passion and she focused on the representation of women in her decade-long column ‘Images of Women’ in Eve’s Weekly. Her 2015 book Smita Patil: A Brief Icandescence (HarperCollins) was translated into Marathi. Her new book Millennial Women in Bollywood: A New Brand? (OUP) is due in 2022. She has written for national and international publications and contributed chapters to many books, including Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema, Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema, The Man Who Spoke in Pictures and Madhumati. Read More Read Less