Lipstick Under My Burkha
Director: Alankrita Srivastava
Cast: Ratna Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aahana Kumra, Plabita Borthakur, Sushant Singh, Vikrant Massey
Rating: 3.5/5
After a long and questionable fight with the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), Alankrita Srivastava's Lipstick Under My Burkha at last hits theaters on Friday.
With all the shout around it, you would expect a film that is about sex. But, this isn't.
Lipstick Under My Burkha is a basic anecdote around four ladies and their fantasies - of money related freedom, of turning into an artist, of moving to a major city and of essentially, appreciating life. The way that these longings stay avoided the general public makes their yearnings appear like brave outings. Lipsticks, in the film, are these yearnings while the patriarchal society is the Burkha.
The film does not noisily cheer woman's rights or as CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani calls it, “lady-oriented”. Alankrita picks an unobtrusive story style to reveal to us the stories of four distinct ladies who are battling a male bullhead society and attitude. What's more, in that lies the magnificence of Lipstick Under My Burkha which is set in a residential area.
Alankrita demonstrates an extremely relatable and credible Bhopal in her motion picture and her characters are on the whole practical. They have their own arrangement of little, yet, aggravating issues managing the male-overwhelmed society.
Shireen (Konkona) is a housewife who works a salesgirl yet needs to conceal her employment from her significant other (Sushant). Bua jee otherwise known as Usha (Ratna) is a 55-year-old lady rendered without wants in view of her age however appreciates perusing delicate porn covered up in her religious books.
Leela (Aahana) is a free-lively lady who feels choked in the residential community of Bhopal and utilizations her sexuality to control the men throughout her life. Rihanna (Plabita) is a youthful school young lady who venerates Miley Cyrus and needs to take after her design style. She needs to conceal her wishes of a turning into an artist under a burkha, because of her standard guardians.
Each character in the film manages various types of preferences and limitations yet in the end, they end up being the same - checking the opportunity of ladies. The residential community setting empowers the four characters to be a piece of every others' lives and inevitably meet up.
Lipstick Under My Burkha is no instructive piece on how ladies ought to be dealt with, nor is it a hard and fast war against patriarchy. The film is a stifled friendly exchange - let us discuss ladies' goals and additionally their rights, let ladies open up about their fantasies.
Lipstick under my Burkha gets a great deal of issues - from manages on ladies' garments to constrained sex in a marriage, it tends to every one of them intensely. This is a strong film not on the grounds that it discusses ladies' sexuality but rather in light of the fact that it attracts thoughtfulness regarding their wishes and issues and does as such in the most glaring hues.
Alankrita has a multitude of superb performers to help her drawing in motion picture. Be it Sushant, Konkona, Plabita, Ratna, Vikrant or Aahana, every one of them have a place with their characters and are great. This is one of those uncommon movies in which it is hard to pick a most loved however Konkona's execution ascends among them as she is the person who is not subject to others to satisfy her yearnings. Not to whine about others' fantasies as they just happen to be to such an extent that can't be finished without others' assistance.
It is ridiculous that the CBFC had issues with such a light film, to the point that simply discusses ladies sustaining their own particular wishes that cross the limits of a male-commanded society.
While the last scene of the film may work for some,I would have adored it had it been more conclusive. A conclusion to the stories would have accommodated a more positive and hopeful film, what Lipstick Under My Burkha expects to be.
This is a film you should not miss as it is not regular that Bollywood movies discuss ladies and their cravings.