Many actresses like Deepika Padukone, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif are taller than many of the male stars.

There was a time in Bollywood when heroines were not supposed to be taller than their heroes. In fact, if an actress, no matter how pretty she was or how good her acting was, she was too tall, she had a lot of trouble finding a job in Bollywood.

However, in the current times, things have changed to a great extent and they have changed for the better. Today, most of the top actresses like Deepika Padukone, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif are taller than many of the male stars and have no difficulty sharing screen space with them. Bollywood as a whole has become much more accommodating when it comes to how heroines are perceived. Let’s take a look at some of the heroines who have worked in movies where the heroes were shorter than them.

1. Deepika Padukone is 1.74m tall. She has worked with Shahrukh Khan in two movies, Om Shanti Om and Happy New Year, who is slightly shorter than her with a height of 1.73m. She has also worked with Saif Ali Khan in movies like Cocktail, Love Aaj Kal and Saif is quite a bit shorter than her with a height of 1.7m.

2. Anushka Sharma, like Deepika, was a model before she entered Bollywood. She is really tall with a height of 1.75m and she has worked with a much shorter Salman Khan (1.7m) in Sultan last year. She has also done movies with SRKs like Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Jab Tak Hai Jaan, who is also a bit shorter than her with a height of 1.73m.

3. Katrina Kaif is one of the most beautiful actresses in Bollywood and she is very tall with a height of 1.73m. She has worked with all three Khans, Aamir Khan (1.65m), Salman Khan (1.7m) and Shahrukh Khan (1.73m), two of whom are shorter than her except SRK who is the same height than her She has also worked with Saif Ali Khan in Phantom who is also shorter than her with a height of 1.7m.

4. Sonam Kapoor is another Bollywood leading lady who is extremely tall with a height of 1.75m. She has worked with Salman Khan in Saawariya and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo and he is quite a bit shorter than her with a height of 1.7m.

5. Sushmita Sen was one of the few female leads in the 90s who was really tall with a height of 1.75m. She has worked with both SRK and Salman in movies like Main Hoon Na. Maine Pyaar Kyun Kia and Biwi No. 1. While SRK is 1.73m tall, Salman is even shorter at 1.7m tall.

6. Tabu was another Bollywood heroine in the 90s who was very tall with a height of 1.74m. She was more of an arthouse actress, but in one of the commercial movies she did in the 90s. Saajan Chale Sasural, she was taller than her main hero Govinda, who was 1 .73 m.

7. Shilpa Shetty was another tall actress of the 90s with a height of 1.74m, who worked with Shahrukh Khan in Baazigar. He was slightly shorter than her with a height of 1.73m. She also worked with Salman Khan in movies like Auzaar and he was much shorter than her with a height of 1.7m.