Aahana Kumra as the fiery beautician and Plabita Borthakur as the student who must stifle her desires also bring honesty and heft to their roles. Konkona Sen Sharma is lovely as the quietly rebellious wife who can’t reveal to her rapacious husband that she has a job. Her sexual longing is so endearing that you want to protect her from the inevitable humiliation that awaits. The most memorable is Ratna Pathak Shah as bua ji – Ratna gives her a dignity and ache. She says: mard ho, mast jungle ugake chalo.Īlankrita, who has also written the film, creates layered, complex characters and finds wonderful actors to inhabit them. At one point, Leela the beautician tells her fiancé that of course he would never need to visit a beauty parlor. But Lipstick Under My Burkha also has a streak of spirited joy and moments that will make you smile. The dialogue by Gazal Dhaliwal captures the slights, resentments and silent anguish that these women endure daily. How can this woman with streaks of white hair and an authoritarian manner articulate her throbbing passion for a young, strapping swimming instructor?ĪLSO WATCH: ANUPAMA CHOPRA’S INTERVIEW WITH TEAM LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA The whole neighborhood calls her bua ji – that is her sole identity.
She hesitantly says Usha, as if she no longer remembers it. Like millions of Indian women, Bua ji, Leela, Shireen and Rehana must live within the lakshman rekha of their prescribed roles – there is a lovely scene in which Bua ji is asked her name.
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