Begum Jaan
My Body. My House. My Country. My Rules.
Directed by Srijit Mukherji
Produced by Vishesh Films, Play Entertainment
A period drama about women in a brothel caught between two nations at the moment of partition, blending intimate human bonds with the violence and displacement of colonial history.
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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