Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award is the epitome of praises, and one actor fresh in line for this award is Aahana Kumra. Aahana will be bestowed with the prestigious award for the most promising fresh face of the year, reported TOI. This is for her tremendous role in Lipstick under my Burkha. Also: Lipstick Under My Burkha Releases: […]

The past year saw one Bollywood film that gave rise to much debate on the topic of freedom of sexual expression and choice. Women from all over the country came together on the streets and social media when CBFC banned the film “Lipstick Under My Burkha”. The reason cited by the then chairman of CBFC Pehlaj Nihlani […]

Bollywood gave us several commercial women-centric films, of varying genres in 2017, and the audience loved most of them. Women took the centre stage in action (Naam Shabana), drama (Noor, Simran), romantic comedy (Bareilly ki Barfi) films, also there were films like Lipstick Under My Burkha, Anaarkali of Aarah and Tumhari Sulu which challenged the society’s notion […]

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 first two words of the title form one of the reasons cited by Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) when it refused to certify Alankrita Shrivastava’s ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’. The decision sends a message that bold, women-centric cinema has little space in our country. So what can we do about it? Apart from […]