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Begum Jaan review
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7 reviews
41
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Summary
Begum Jaan (2017, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 41 from 7 critic reviews, and is rated 18+ by Filmi (CBFC: A).
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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Directed by Srijit Mukherji · written by Srijit Mukherji & Niranjan Iyengar & Kausar Munir & Rahat Indori · music Anu Malik & Indraadip Dasgupta & Khayyam
Srijit MukherjiDirector · Writer
Niranjan IyengarWriter
Kausar MunirWriter
Rahat IndoriWriter
Anu MalikMusic
Indraadip DasguptaMusic
KhayyamMusic
Gopi BhagatCinematography
Monisha R BaldawaEditing
Vidya BalanLead
Naseeruddin Shah
Pallavi Sharda
Gauahar Khan
Ila Arun
Priyanka Setia
Flora Saini
Ridheema Tiwari
Mishti Chakravarty
Raviza Chauhan
Gracy Goswami
Pitobash
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Summary
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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What the critics said
7 reviews · the critic’s own number where they gave one
Five of 7 · the critic’s own number where they gave one
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
70
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
50
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
30
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 →
Derived by Filmi
25
Suhani Singh · 14 Apr 2017
1.5/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
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Filmi’s reading 25
30
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 →
Derived by Filmi
22
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 7 readings; 5 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
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What did critics say about Begum Jaan?
Begum Jaan has a Filmi Score of 41 (Mixed), the mean of 7 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 22 (Rediff) to 76 (Bollywood Hungama). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
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