“It is quite a marvel that we women manage to do as much as we do!” Look at more such quotes of Konkona Sen Sharma!

Alankrita Shrivastava’s new film is a delightfully layered tale of constant negotiation of feminine desires and expressions in largely masculine spaces

The film is a journey of realisation that this big, bad world is run by men and women are only confined within small spaces in it, and then, it is an attempt at liberating women from those spaces. 

Actor Swara Bhaskar added to the discussion saying, “Mob lynching has become an epidemic in the country today, and I don’t think we can turn our face away from this harsh reality. There’s no point in falsifying it.”

Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava’s controversial film Lipstick Under My Burkha, kickstarted the eighth edition of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) 2017 on Thursday (Aug 10). Later in the day, Srivastava took to Twitter to announce the good news that this multi-talented feminist film has won Best Indie film award. Not only that, for her outstanding performance in the […]

Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava’s extraordinary, yet most controversial film Lipstick Under My Burkha, is receiving all the hypes lately. Not only that, to everyone’s surprise, the film now has made a whopping Rs 10 crore! With only Rs 6 crore production and post-production cost it has become a commercial hit in just one week. While the film was […]

Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava’s extraordinary film Lipstick Under My Burkha has done the unthinkable. While the controversial film was initially denied a Censor Board certificate, it won accolades at film fests the world over. The awards helped change the Censor Board’s perception to the film and finally Lipstick Under My Burkha got a date to hit the screens in India. But […]

After a long struggle with the censor board, Lipstick Under My Burkha will finally hit the screens in India. Lipstick Under My Burkha finally releases 28th July!! — Konkona Sensharma (@konkonas) June 5, 2017 The film has been a runaway hit on the global film festival circuit and made headlines after the CBFC banned it […]

The very versatile Konkona Sen Sharma has proven her mettle from time to time. And, now the Bollywood actress and director has been awarded as the best director for her directorial debut ‘A Death In The Gunj’ and the best actress for ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ at 2017’s New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF).

This is no ordinary news for Indian cinema! Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava’s most controversial film Lipstick Under My Burkha is unstoppable. It’s making headlines every day. Last week, the team celebrated its opening night screening at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles last week. Now the buzz is that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has opened […]