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Lipstick Waale Sapne (English: Lipstick Under My Burkha)

The film was denied a release in India in January 2017, after the country's Central Board of Film Certification refused a certificate, stating that "The story is lady oriented, their fantasy above life. It contains [sic] sexual scenes, abusive words, audio pornography and a bit sensitive touch about one particular section of society"..[8]

The filmmakers appealed this decision to the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), which overruled the censor board's ruling, thereby granting the film a theatrical release rights. FCAT asked the filmmakers to make some cuts, mostly related to the sex scenes, at their discretion. The film will be released with an "A" or adults certificate, equivalent to an NC-17 rating in the United States, with some voluntary edits. Shrivastava said that an announcement for the release date would be made in the next "10-12 days."[10]

Trailer. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6BjwfnjbUc

Some surely do like the controversy and the movie may generate its own followers.

Enjoy.

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Last edited by: Full House on 01-05-17 00:14:00

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A burqa-clad college girl, who wants to be cool. A young beautician seeking escape from the suffocation of a small town. A mother of three realises the dark truth about her marriage. And a 55-year-old widow rediscovers her sexuality. Set in the crowded bylanes of Bhopal, Alankrita Shrivastava’s Lipstick Under My Burkha chronicles the secret lives of four women in search of a little freedom. The film is part of this year’s Work in Progress section at the forthcoming Film Bazaar organised by the National Film Development Corporation of India.

“I wanted to explore the feeling of not being free and looking for change from within. It is something that many women grapple with,” says Alankrita, whose previous film Turning 30 found a healthy response from the critics. Alankrita says out of four protagonists only two are Muslim. “Burqa is more like a metaphor for the way women veil their desires. It is like what we want we are not able to reach out for as we tend to suppress our desires. It is an expression for the claustrophobia that many women live with.”

Daughter of an IAS officer, Alankrita says she grew up in a very regular upper middle class educated family. “I studied in Dehradun and Delhi and have been on my own in Mumbai for a decade now. Even with this kind of upbringing I don’t feel that I am fully free. Even when somebody as privileged as me doesn’t feel free what about the women who come from under privileged sections. I am often preoccupied with the thought that whether I have control over my happiness. And perhaps that’s why the theme constantly figures in my films in different contexts. Even in my first film Open Door, I dealt with it.”

For Alankrita it is a personal journey. “I am a more urban person and the story is set in small town India. Still all the four characters are me in some way. I have not experienced restrictions. Still, there is a feeling of guilt for no reason. Sometimes, there is a feeling of shame for no reason. It is a very complex thing. It is not necessarily that your parents have told you that you can’t do this. It’s more absorbed. I feel I am constantly fighting some kind of inner battle with myself even to take myself seriously. I don’t have those external obstacles but what happens to these women who have external things blocking them. The solution lies in the internal overcoming…something has to shift inside you. Ultimately, you have to find the freedom from within your own life. This was the broader theme that I wanted to touch upon.”

Alankrita agrees that in changing India, the desires are coming to the fore more often. Continue......

http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/lipstick-under-my-burkha-and-burqa-boxers-in-film-bazaar/article7892410.ece

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