'The burka is a metaphor for a hidden passion': New movie 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' 調査するs the secret lives of four women trying to dodge their small town traditions in India

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Welcome to the world of four women from small-towns in India as they try to break the 障壁s, dodge their families and 実行する their secret dreams.?

The trailer of the movie Lipstick Under My Burkha, 明らかにする／漏らす the lives of four women who have 伝統的な 外見, but have given wings to their lusty 願望（する）s, wet dreams and a 激怒（する）ing libido.

Four New York women 社債d over drinks in Sex and The City, and four 郊外の women connected while playing poker in Desperate Housewives.

Somewhere in India, these four women come together in a dingy room and 社債 as they smoke, talk sex and men.?

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Konkona Sen Sharma plays a burka-覆う？ woman spending most of her time do ing 世帯 chores and looking after the children

Produced by エース filmmaker Prakash Jha, and directed by young filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava, Lipstick Under My Burkha is all about 'listening to one's heart'.?

Alankrita tells Mail Online that the movie 調査するs her own 願望（する）s, which she 内密に 養育するd.?

“Through these four women, I tried to 調査する my inner 願望（する）s,” says Alankrita.?

Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava says Lipstick Under My Burkha is all about 'listening to one's heart'

Burka-覆う？ Konkona Sen Sharma's life is 限定するd to dropping and 選ぶing her children from the school, seasoned actresses Ratna Pathak Shah plays a lonely 未亡人 trying to hide grey hair, get her underarms waxed as she 内密に flirts with young men on phone.

A young small town girl 養育するs her dream to be a singer, kicks aside her 行う／開催する／段階 fright, and gets mocked as 'Bhopal ki Britney' (Britney Spears from Bhopal), while another girl (played by Ahana Kumra) takes naughty selfies.?

A small town girl kicks aside her 行う／開催する／段階 fright to 成し遂げる in 前線 of a large 集会

“(The) Burkha is a metaphor for hidden passion and 願望（する） of these four women, who want to break 解放する／自由な from their 保守的な backgrounds,” says Alankrita.?

While working as an assistant director with Prakash Jha in his popular movies such as Apaharan and Rajneeti, the 30-year-old Delhi girl Alankrita felt that very few Indian movies narrate lives of women from 保守的な backgrounds 調査するing their sexuality.?

Very few Indian movies narrate lives of women from 保守的な background 調査するing their sexuality

“The narrative is either dark or grim when we を取り引きする women trying to break 解放する／自由な, but it is never a comic 陰謀（を企てる）.

"I 手配中の，お尋ね者 my characters to leave behind the 重荷（を負わせる） and make the audience feel relaxed,” says Alankrita, about her four protagonists, two of whom are Hindus and the other two are イスラム教徒s.?

The movie was 広範囲にわたって 拍手喝采する at the recently 結論するd 14th Mumbai 学院 of The Moving Images (MAMI) Film Festival.

The four sm all town women 社債 as they catch up for a smoke in Lipstick Under My Burkha

It will soon be featured in the Asian Cinema section of the 29th Tokyo Film Festival, and the European 首相 will be at Stockholm International Film Festival in November, where the movie will be 審査するd in the スポットライト section.

There has been an 現在進行中の 審議 on burkini and burkha 禁止（する）, while the movie, 主張するs Alankrita を強調するs the lives of person behind the 隠す.?

The filmmaker who last directed Turning 30, 主張するs that her movie has not a 声明 about burkha-覆う？ women.?

Ahana Kumra plays the girl obsessed with clicking naughty selfies

“It only comments on freedom choices that women make and the 解放する／自由な spirit, which has nothing to do with what they choose to wear.?

There are several unspoken 面s of women that remain hidden, because nobody 会談 about it,” says Alankrita.?

The movie 調査する secret life of a 伝統的な, small-town girl who 内密に goes to 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 to take tequila 発射s

退役軍人 actress Ratna Pathak Shah plays a lonely 未亡人 who ーするつもりであるs to break-解放する／自由な

"I spoke to several women who wore burka, and to my surprise they broke the stereotypes in more than many ways. Their ideologies were 解放するd and thoughts were 完全に different to what they wore."?

The movie was 広範囲にわたって 拍手喝采する at the recently 結論するd 14th Mumbai 学院 of The Moving Images (MAMI) Film Festival

"I realised it doesn’t 事柄 what you choose to wear, but, what is important is that women have the will to fight,“ 追加するs Alankrita.?

"We talk about women who are 条件d not to cross their laxman rekha (line of decency).

"In ge neral, women in India are dissuaded to speak of their 性の 願望（する）s or men and it’s no different when it comes to movies. Society’s patriarchal mind-始める，決める speaks in movie too,” 調印するs off Alankrita.