Bollywood movies usually refrain from supplying their heroines with guns except during desperate times when it’s a matter of protecting her dignity from ‘goondas’. There’s always a hero standing guard besides the few lucky ones using arms and ammunition more frequently, the man holding a bigger or rather a better gun than his female counterpart. In Hollywood we have such examples as Angelina Jolie and Uma Thurman who’ve comfortably ploughed through hordes and hordes of enemies wielding rifles and custom-made swords in the films Salt and Kill Bill respectively. And these ‘femme lethal’ kick-ass ladies didn’t require a man by their side to (how should I put it?)… ‘make audiences feel relaxed’ seeing them equip firearms; they could dominate the screen (and the scene) on their own. Just last month, Indian cinema gave us Gulaab Gang, (very) loosely based on the real life incidents of activist Sampat Pal-led female brigade who fought with laathis against men

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