![]() ![]() Begum Jaan is a remake of Mukherji’s own Bengali film, Rajkahini. But also by the fact that here was yet another film in which women played the protagonists. I was most impressed, not just by their lack of beautification, which is a big deal in an industry in which Priyanka Chopra playing a specially-abled girl in Barfi sported waxed legs and perfectly coiffed hair. They spoke of the feminist film that it was, the almost all-female cast and how in their dedication to reality, while playing sex workers in 1947, they had stopped going to the parlour and getting themselves tweezed and waxed. This hurts especially because a couple of weeks ago, on the stage of the fabulously branded film awards show, Fair & Lovely Zee Cine Awards, five female members of the Begum Jaan cast came on stage. ![]()
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