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Begum Jaan

बेगम जान

Hindi14 Apr 20172h 08mA · 18+Action · Drama · History

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Negative-lean 6 reviews read · 4 with the critic’s own rating

1131

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18+

CBFC: A 7 of 7 categories documented

Set in a brothel straddling the new India-Pakistan border during Partition: raunchy dialogue, sex-work scenes, a sexual-assault subplot,… Family Room →

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Every review we read

Scores normalised to 0–100. A 3/5 shows as 60. Each row links to where it came from when we have the link.

Times of India

Meena Iyer · 13 Apr 2017

Begum Jaan Review {3.5/5}: Vidya invests fully in Begum and her dialogue-baazi will get ceetis Read it there →

Published · 3.5/5 Filmi’s reading 65

Hindustan Times

Rohit Vats · 14 Apr 2017

Begum Jaan movie review: Vidya Balan and her girls fight patriarchy with all their might | Entertainment News Read it there →

Published · 2.5/5 Filmi’s reading 48

The Indian Express

Shubhra Gupta · 14 Apr 2017

Begum Jaan movie review: Vidya Balan tries to invest some feeling into her role which soon turns clichéd Read it there →

Published · 1.5/5 Filmi’s reading 26

The Hindu

Namrata Joshi · 14 Apr 2017

Joshi calls the film a shrill, cliché-ridden failure that sensationalises rather than illuminates gender and Partition, faulting crude dialogue,… Read it there →

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India Today

Suhani Singh · 14 Apr 2017

1.5/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →

Stated in text Filmi’s reading 25

Rediff

Sukanya Verma · 14 Apr 2017

Verma sees the film exploit Partition-era brutality for melodrama and 'empty feminism,' with exploitative sexual-violence imagery and manufactured… Read it there →

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Bollywood Hungama

Taran Adarsh

Begum Jaan Read it there →

Published · 3.0/5

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Synopsis

On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves. What the administration doesn’t account for is the line running through the middle of Begum Jaan’s brothel situated plonk on the border; with one half falling in India and the other in Pakistan.

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