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Female Wrestlers Are Unlikely Heroines Of Bollywood's Biggest Smash

By Julie McCarthy
Published January 13, 2017 at 12:47 PM PST

A blockbuster Bollywood movie is raking in millions and trying to change entrenched gender roles in India. It's set in Haryana state, where the sex ratio of newborns skews heavily toward boys.

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Julie McCarthy
Julie McCarthy has spent most of career traveling the world for NPR. She's covered wars, prime ministers, presidents and paupers. But her favorite stories "are about the common man or woman doing uncommon things," she says.
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