8 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA NOW

By Amrita Menon (Team Creative)  

1. The movie isn’t preachy; and while it is about women who in their own way subvert societal expectations, it doesn’t simplify or glorify them- it just shows you how things are and draws attention to things people don’t necessarily talk about in the mainstream. It doesn’t give you any answers but its message is still loud and clear. And the message is for you to find out.

2. The movie follows the lives of 4 women all of different ages with different personalities and different lives. There is diversity in abundance, but their underlying problem is inherently the same.

3. While the movie has some very emotional scenes (they’ll make you extremely angry, sad, scared- depending on your temperament), it’s not depressingly serious- it’s actually quite comical so you’re sure to have more than a few laughs.

4. It’s like nothing you’ve seen in Indian cinema before. While sex and sexuality is nothing new in Indian cinema, this is different because it’s not com modified for a male audience. It shows women as thinking, feeling humans; whose sexuality have been imprisoned by a patriarchal society that’s terrified at the thought of a liberated woman. 

5. At the same time it doesn’t demonise all men or paint them all with a single brush. Every man depicted in the movie has his own virtues and flaws. While you might hate some of them, you can’t help but feel sorry for them too; because in the end they are all products of the same society. 

6. The cast is brilliant and the acting is A+. Ratna Pathak Shah and Konkana Sen Sharma, as usual, were effortlessly perfect and Aahana Kumar and Plabita Borthakur weren’t far behind.

7. The writing is beautiful and at times, extremely poetic. The different story lines of the characters weaved themselves with each others’ brilliantly and filled the plot with complexity and nuance.

8. By paying money to watch it in the theatre you’re indirectly saying “Screw You” to the archaic and ignorant censor board that wanted to ban it and showing them that the more “lady oriented” movies that are made, the better.