Begum Jaan (2017)

India

Action, Drama, History, Bollywood Movies, Hindi Movies

Vishesh Films, Play Entertainment, SVF Entertainment

Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Ridheema Tiwari, Gauahar Khan, Pallavi Sharda, Mishti Chakravarty

Srijit Mukherji

Srijit Mukherji, Kausar Munir, Rahat Indori, Niranjan Iyengar

Taglines: My Body. My House. My Country. My Rules.

brothel, border, prostitution, period drama, colonial india, india pakistan border

On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves. What the administration doesn’t account for is the line running through the middle of Begum Jaan’s brothel situated plonk on the border; with one half falling in India and the other in Pakistan.

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