8 Bollywood actresses who played powerful lawyers on screen
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Rani Mukerji as Saamiya Siddiqui defends Shah Rukh Khan's Veer Pratap Singh in Yash Chopra's eternal love saga Veer-Zaara released in 2004.
Taapsee Pannu plays Aarti Malhotra Mohammed, defending her father-in-law Murad Ali Mohammed, played by Rishi Kapoor, in Anubhav Sinha's 2018 film Mulk.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan plays Anuradha Verma, a criminal lawyer in Sanjay Gupta's 2015 crime thriller Jazbaa, which also starred the late Irrfan Khan.
Yami Gautam's Gulnaar Rizvi went up against Shahid Kapoor's Sushil Kumar in the 2018 film Batti Gul Meter Chalu directed by Shree Narayan Singh.
Kareena Kapoor's Priya Saxena defends her husband Akshay Kumar's Raj Malhotra against Priyanka Chopra's Sonia Kapoor Roy in Abbas-Mustan's 2004 romantic thriller AitraazÂ
Shriya Pilgaonkar plays Kashaf Quaze in the highly-underrated Prime Video's legal drama web series Guilty Minds, which also starred the late Satish Kaushik.
Neha Sharma plays Niharika Singh in Voot's legal thriller web series Illegal, which also stars Kubbra Sait, Piyush Mishra, and Akshay Oberoi in leading roles.
Kajol plays Noyonika Sengupta, who chooses to defend her husband after being cheated on in her first web series The Trial, streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.