Film

Begum Jaan

Name: Begum Jaan
Director: Srijit Mukherji
Released: 2017
Rating: 6
Cast: Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Ridheema Tiwari, Gauahar Khan, Pallavi Sharda

2017 · 128 min · ★ 6 · Dir. Srijit Mukherji

My Body. My House. My Country. My Rules.

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.