Lipstick Under My Burkha

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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 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review 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 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Bold, daring and brilliant... Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review 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 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review 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 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review 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 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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