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Begum Jaan

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Release on: Apr 14, 2017

Begum Jaan

Movie name	:	Begum Jaan
Genres	:	Drama
Run time	:	125 min
Produced by	:	Mahesh Bhatt Mukesh Bhatt
Directed by	:	Srijit Mukherji
Music by	:	Anu Malik
Writers	:	Srijit Mukherji
Cinematography	:	Mulgeta Amaru
Edited by	:	Praveen Prabhakar
Production	:	Vishesh Films
Countries	:	India

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com

It’s a good period and story to revisit because even 70-years after Partition, anything around it still piques interest. Then again, here the narrative deals less with the horror of the divide and serves more as an ode to the spiritedness of Begum; widowed in her childhood and sold to a brothel. Also, Mukherji is revisiting his Bengali film Rajkahini(2015).

Coming back to our protagonist – kings, administrators and commoners are hooked onto the pleasures provided by her girls, so Begum with her guile manages to rule. Till, Radcliffe draws the Lakshman-Rekha.

Vidya invests fully in Begum and her dialogue-baazi (a lot of which is raunchy) will get ceetis. However, the writer-director’s interest level in everything else, falters. A sense of deja-vu pervades as one watches a prostitute staring sightlessly at the celling when "entertaining" a customer; or when sex-workers get sentimental over a child, "because all of them are mothers first and whores later." Surely these women needed to be fleshed out with more finesse.

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