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- Lipstick Under My Burkha is a 2016 Indian Hindi -language black comedy film written and directed by Alankrita Shrivastava and produced by Prakash Jha. The film stars Ratna Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur, while Sushant Singh, Sonal Jha, Vikrant Massey, Shashank Arora, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi and Jagat Singh Solanki play supportive roles. The movie shows the secret lives of four women who are in search of their freedom.
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Screening. Lipstick Under My Burkha was screened at the Mumbai Film Festival that was held 20–27 October 2016. It was also screened at the Tokyo Film Festival that was held from 25 October to 3 November 2016. [17] The film has notably earned eleven international film festival awards prior to its official release.
- Censored For Being “Lady-Oriented”
- No Real Women
- Item Numbers
- Changing Indian Cinema
The film has been stalled as the Central Board of Film Certification, (CBFC) refused to give it clearance. On February 23, the government institution stated: Lipstick Under My Burkha explores the life of four Indian women living in small-town India: a burkha-clad college girl, a young beautician, a mother of three and an ageing widow. The film foll...
For many decades now, commercial cinema has robbed Indian film audiences of countless women’s stories. Over the years, real women characters have existed mainly in non-commercial, art-house films with limited funding and audiences. These include titles such as Ankur(1974), directed by Shyam Benegal, Arth (1982) by Mahesh Bhatt, Mirch Masala by Keta...
Real women have been rendered invisible at the cost of their bodies. The omniscient presence of a certain kind of song (to which women actors dance), often called “item number”, is the most obvious sign of their objectification. The “item number” exists largely to titillate audiences. It can be dropped anywhere in the film with no narrative justifi...
Several factors have, however, been changing trends in Indian cinema for over a decade now. Demographics show an increasing number of women with buying power in urban Indiaand they have different expectations of cultural representation. New business models, such as the entry of corporations into the film business, are appearing. Previously, product...
- Anubha Yadav
Mar 29, 2018 · Alankrita Shrivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha was screened as part of The Indian Express Film Club at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi last week. The critically-acclaimed film won the Gender Equality Award at Mumbai Film Festival and accolades at the international film circuit.
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Jan 17, 2018 · Ironically but unsurprisingly, the film Lipstick Under My Burkha has been banned for the very phenomenon it was made to throw light on - that is, the suppression of women's sexuality. At a film...
Jul 27, 2017 · In the process her story is revealed, of a very lonely single woman, of desires never fulfilled, of a dream that she at the age of 55 years tries to convert into reality as she overcomes deep guilt and enters a world, forbidden till now.
- Seema Mustafa
Lipstick Under My Burkha is no utopic film. Cited as ‘ladies-oriented’, it brings nuance to the very idea of desire, by portraying it as something fundamentally tied up with questions of identity and agency.
Mar 11, 2017 · While the jury is out in India, audiences in the U.S. can catch Lipstick Under My Burkha in Los Angeles, where it will open the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles on April 5, or at the New...
