Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone and Anushka Sharma

In old-style magazine journalism, four good examples would make a trend. Yup, that’s lazy writing. So does it even make sense to spot trends anymore? Sometimes, yes — when the changes you see are, one, irreversible; and two, staring you in the face. What did we gauge from Bollywood in 2016 to call it the year of the woman then?