The trope of the ‘Foreign Return’ woman in Indian cinema, and why she’s a character viewers love to hate

Some people believe the Foreign Return woman was a weird manifestation of everything that was thought to be wrong with the upper classes. Others believe she was symbolic of “them”. It was never clear who “they” were but one thing was certain — “they” were not “us”. There was one good thing about the Foreign Return woman though: it was deliciously easy to be judgmental about her. And that was something all of us could really enjoy.

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