Udaya Tara Nayyar: Parveen Babi was liberated to an extent but not cheap or exhibitionist

In many ways Parveen was the apt choice by Time magazine for its cover when it did a story on Indian Cinema in 1976. She symbolized the new image of the heroine in Hindi Cinema-liberated to an extent but not cheap or exhibitionistic. Her contemporaries were amazed that she had made it to the cover of the magazine without any PR exercise. Parveen was unruffled and quietly happy about it.