Lipstick Under My Burkha: Powerful movie of the week
Cast : Konkona Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak, Aahana Kumra, Plabita Borthakur, Sushant Singh, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi Rated: 8/10 Lipstick Under My Burqa is meant to raise a stink and it does so with a starkness that may make you feel embarrassed but the reality it throws at you draws you in with equal force into the life and times of four middle class, small town women, two of them suffering life from behind the proverbial burqa. The burqa — and the lipstick — here are symbols of oppression that most women — of any community — go through in their daily lives. They suffer it, they try to fight it in their own little ways (that’s where the lipstick comes in) and, quite sadly, they learn to live with it in the long run. Young director Alankrita Shrivastava, a petite firehouse of somewhat unassuming feminism herself, made this everyday reality into a conscience-shaking film in which the main prop is the near-perfect fit of histrionics into the castin...