Today two movies were released at the box office, Munna Michael and Lipstick Under My Burkha.
So I am taking Lipstick Under My Burkah first to review. It would be no wrong to call this film a women oriented movie. As in the movie, they show four different women- their desires, their wishes and their choices has been filmed and how they get dominated in our patriarchal society.
If men do, it is right but if a woman does then it is wrong. There is also a dialogue in the film- you are a wife, do not try to become a husband. This film has been produced by Prakash Jha and directed by Alankrita Shrivastava, who assisted Jha in many films.
Four women are shown in the film, who comes from the same income group of the society. Konkona Sen Sharma aka Sireen Aslam is the mother of 3 children who works as a sales girl but hides this from her husband. She has her own ambitions and physical desires from her husband but her husband doesn’t pay attention to that side.
Ratna Pathak Shah, who is playing the role a widow, who is considered to be very romantic or wild and loves reading novel. She started falling for her young swimming coach, becoming an unknown Rosey on the phone she starts talking to him. She tells the story of her novel and also fix the day of the meeting.
Now comes the third woman, Rihanna, who is a college girl and whose father is a trailer with a conservative mentality. He wants her daughter to wear Burkha whenever she goes out from the house, but she is a modern woman and hates the restriction of wearing Burkah.
She wants to be modern, she wants to look modern. She wants to wear jeans, not Burkah, she loves to go to parties and in the midst of all this, she got into a relationship.
The fourth girl, Ahana Kumra aka Leela who runs a small beauty parlour and all the woman of her neighbourhood are her clients. Leela loves a photographer of her society but her mother fixes her marriage in a good family so that her daughter can live happily after marriage.
What happens next, with Sireen, is she get along with her husband Sushant Singh and why Sushant said Konkona aka Sireen that she should not try to become a husband. What happens with Buaji aka Ratna Pathak Shah, when she calls his fantasy boy his swimming coach. Does Leela marries her boyfriend or has to do arrange marriage. What happened with Rihanna, does she get freedom from wearing burkah.
To know all this you have to watch the movie because I am here to review it not to tell you the story. So now, let’s see Alankrita Shrivastava’s first movie as a writer-director from my perspective. She started her movie career in 2005 with Prakash Jha’s ‘Apharan’.
As the title of the film suggests, the film is women oriented and the story has been written keeping in mind a woman’s desires, wishes, needs, regardless of their sexual desires.
The plot of the film is really good and screenplay could have been better, due to which they could have saved the film from dragging. In many places, they could save the audience from boredom and as a director Alankrita’s first attempt is great. It is clear that she assisted Jha because Prakash Jha’s way of working is clearly visible in this film, be it cinematography or anything else. But the ending doesn’t happen in Prakash Jha’s style.
This film is a must watch and this kind of 2-3 films should be created every year which talks about women empowerment because if a film can spoil the society, then I think it can also improve the society.
My rating for this film is 3.5 out of 5, as Alankrita has made a very good film and also choose a great subject. I would like her to continue making films on such subjects. Best wishes to her.
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