These girls are no damsels in distress. They can pack a mean wallop without messing their make-up at all. And what tells them apart from scores of action babes is that these women are warriors.
Watch Aishwarya Rai Bachchan do her thing in The Last Legion and you'll know what we're talking about. It was fun to watch Ash as Mira, a Kalaripayatu expert from Kerala, rub shoulders with Hollywood stars like Colin Firth and Ben Kingsley. What was our sexy warrior's weapon of choice? A knife with hidden compartments for two extra blades.
Her warrior training came to good use later as well -- when she sparred with Hrithik Roshan in the grand Jodhaa-Akbar.
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