Lipstick Under My Burkha

2017

1h 57m

Comedy

Drama

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Four women search for a little freedom.

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Anupama Chopra

Film Companion

This story of four ordinary women who seek small joys was buoyed by wonderful performances - especially by Ratna Pathak Shah.

Sep 6, 2018

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Namrata Joshi

The Hindu

Problems and predicaments that are easy to relate to, performances that are forceful and a film that remains breezy in its audacity.

Mar 15, 2018

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Deborah Young

Hollywood Reporter

Lipstick is audaciously outspoken about women's sexual desires and fantasies, both visually and verbally.

Jul 21, 2017

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Saibal Chatterjee

NDTV

A truly engaging and effective tale of women whose woes are but the starting points of acts of courage and defiance.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 24, 2020

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Rahul Desai

Film Companion

The lead characters remain human, swaying between desperately flawed, unintentionally amusing and depressingly feeble, just like their environment has shaped them to become...

Rated: 3/5

Mar 1, 2019

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Anna M.M. Vetticad

Firstpost

Despite the grim themes of female subjugation and the right to choose, Shrivastava tells the story with a light touch, and there is as much to smile about as to weep over in this film.

Rated: 3.5/5

Mar 15, 2018

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Audience Member

Disappointing. Had expected bigger things on account of some of the names involved. Purports to tell something profound. The end result is rather mundane. Too many stretched plot points all in search of a coherent climax. Doesn't quite add up.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

"You know what our problem is? We dream too much?" That quote is devastating. It comes from the movie Lipstick Under My Burkha from writer director Alankrita Shrivastava. It's a remarkable film about four wonderful characters staring into the face of oppression and still trying to live their dreams. Lipstick is only Shrivastava's second directorial feature and yet she directs with the surety and beauty of a veteran filmmaker. Her eye and ear are perfectly in tune to her characters, who each have big beautiful beating hearts. https://geeks.media/movie-review-lipstick-under-my-burkha?_ga=2.96854367.1126457623.1513947710-953607229.1513947710

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

Bold, daring and brilliant...

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

For a film that purports to be transgressive, progressive, and feminist, it achieves some of those goals, but doesn't quite make it to the finish line. The women are sympathetic, relatable, and their secret rebellions are realistic. But as the stories progress, they sink into the mire of melodrama and/or sitcom situations, and the ending doesn't seem to make any of the previous struggles worthwhile. Not a single one of them stands up for themselves; at the end of the day, they are resigned to let men trample all over their dreams and dignity, which in my opinion, is a huge misstep.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Audience Member

Construed as too feminist in orientation and initially banned in India, this comedy alarms censors for its bold and honest assertion of female sexual liberation in a male chauvinist culture when they could be more afraid of its urgent and pointed social criticism.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

The movie Lipstick under my Burkha is a desperate feminist attempt to make women having sex with multiple men is their sexual freedom. The husband demanded sex, it became marital rape but when Leela demanded, it was her sexual freedom... The feminists are the bunch of criminals is justified their crime in the movie. Desperate 3rd-grade feminist movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Alankrita Shrivastava

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Ratna Pathak

Usha Rosy Buaji

Plabita Borthakur

Rehana Abidi

Konkona Sen Sharma

Shireen Aslam

Aahana Kumra

Leela

Shashank Arora

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Synopsis

Four women search for a little freedom.

Director: Alankrita Shrivastava
Screenwriter: Alankrita Shrivastava
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Runtime: 1h 57m