Hindi Movie Review Lipstick Under My Burkha - Cast & Crew

Alankrita Shrivastava is a popular Indian director who is among one of India’s leading contemporary writers as well. She most recently directed and co-wrote some episodes of Amazon Prime Video’s critically appreciated web series, Made in Heaven. Alankrita’s latest film, the Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017) featuring Konkona Sen and Ratna Pathak Shah, got great appreciation and praise from critics and audiences all around the world. The film won several awards at many prestigious international movie festivals including MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, Glasgow, Tokyo, Glasgow, and IFFLA.

Konkona Sen Sharma is a Bollywood actress hailing from Kolkata, West Bengal. She was born on 3 December 1979 in a Bengali family. She completed her schooling at the Calcutta International School and later moved to Delhi for a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Delhi University’s most prestigious college- St. Stephen’s. Cinema has already been existent in her genetic roots. Her mother, Aparna Sen, is a noted actress and director in Bengali cinema. Moreover, she is the granddaughter of Chidananda Dasgupta, a film critic who also established the Calcutta Film Society. In 1983, the four-year-old Konkona was first seen on the big screen in a Bengali film titled ‘Indira’. Her official Tollywood debut was in 2000 in ‘Ek Je Aachhe Kanya,’ for which she was awarded at the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards (2002).

Ratna Pathak is an Indian actress who has been a part of many Indigenous & International Projects through various forms of acting. She is a popular Theatre artist, film & television actress and co-founder of a theatre group called ‘Motley Theatre group’. She is the daughter of yesteryear’s famous Bollywood actress ‘Dina Pathak’. Her younger sister ‘Supriya Pathak’ is also an actress. She is married to famous actor ‘Naseeruddin Shah’.

Aahana Kumra is an Indian Theater actress and have a great popularity among the all theater actresses in India. Aahana Kumra belongs from Delhi, India and has acted in many theater shows. Aahana Kumra now a days becoming popular due to getting a chance to work with an Indian industry’s super duper Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan. She auditioned for Yudh, upcoming TV show of Amitabh Bachchan and selected. Aahana Kumra says, "it is a blessing from heaven to work with him", she likewise said that she had never thought in her most extravagant fantasy that she will get an opportunity to work with Mr Bachchan, that excessively so ahead of schedule in her profession. she had suspected that she will likely get an opportunity to do an advertisement. Working with Amitabh Bachchan for a year is similar to going on a 'tirtha yatra. Yudh' is liable to go reporting in real time in not long from now on Sony Entertainment Television.

Plabita Borthakur is an Indian Theatre Artist, actress, and singer. She was born in Dibrugarh District, Assam, India, to Probin and Rina Borthakur. Plabita was born into a family of artists. Probin is a classical singer, while Rina is a poet.

Suhani Kanwar is an Indian Bollywood Screenplay writer and assistant director. She is known for her 2017 release film Lipstick Under My Burkha, featuring Rathna Pathak and Ahana Kumra, in the lead roles. She has also worked along with Habib Faisal in the TV Show Dil Bekara, which is an adaptation of the book Tose Pricey Thakur Girls. She rose to prominence as a screenplay writer after her first screenplay was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. She also wrote the story and screenplay for the horror film MMS 2, and later did the same for a drama called Swim Tem for Channel V produced by Endemol.

Gazal Dhaliwal is an Indian screenwriter and entertainer, who has co-composed a few movies like Lipstick Under My Burkha, Qarib Single and Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga. She is likewise an open speaker and LGBTQ+ dissident, who has spoken transparently about being a transgender lady a few talks and in the media – most broadly in a scene of the Aamir Khan-drove television show, Satyamev Jayate. Gazal Dhaliwal experienced childhood in the city of Patiala in Punjab and was destined to Sikh guardians Bhajan Pratap Singh Dhaliwal and Sukarni Dhaliwal.

Anvita Dutt was born on 20th February 1972. She is currently 45 years of age. She was born in New Delhi. She is a very popular Dialogue writer, Storywriter, Screenplay writer, and lyricist as well. She is the writer of many popular Bollywood films and has written many beautiful songs.

Malini Awasthi is a distinguished folk singer of India, who has specialized in singing songs in various local dialects of Hindi language, like Bhojpuri, Awadhi and Bundelkhandi. Her expertise also extends to some semi-classical types of Hindi songs, like Thumri and Kajari.

Malini was born in Kannauj of Uttar Pradesh and completed her post graduation in Hindustani Classical Music from Bhatkhande University of Lucknow. She honed her skills by learning further from the eminent Indian Classical singer Girija Devi, whose fame for singing Thumri is a legend. As a result, Malini now sings regularly in a prominent classical music festival, which is known as Jahan-e-Khusrau. She has also sung some popular songs in some notable Hindi and Bhojpuri films; like Jai Ho Chhat Maiya, Bhole Shankar, Bumm Bumm Bole, Agent Vinod, the recent Hindi films Dum Laga Ke Haisha and Chaarfutiya Chhokare. 

She balanced her personal life well with her music career, fulfilling her duties as the wife of Awanish Kumar Awasthi, a senior IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh government and the mother of two grown-up children, the daughter Ananya who is now a dentist and the son Aditya who is aspiring to be a lawyer.

She is particularly famous for her Thumri song ‘Thaare Raho Baanke Shyam’, which has gained immense popularity for her melodious high-pitched voice. Her prominent works in the field of music have earned her Sahara Awadh Samman in 2003.

Intro: Neeti Mohan appeared on Hindi television while performing as a competitive singer and soon she won the hearts of millions with her performances. Now she is a celebrity singer with huge success.

A beautiful diva with a golden voice is how one can introduce Neeti Mohan, the dazzling young star. She first appeared with her golden voice on television for the musical programme Popstars which was aired on Channel V in the year 2003. She won the show and along with other winners, created a musical group Asma. Under the auspicious guidance of Shankar Mahadevan, she also represented the team of Shankar’s Rockstars on the musical competitive show Music Ka Maha Muqabala. This show was aired on Star One in the year 2009. Since then, she is a regular member of A.R. Rehman live shows performing all over the world.

After winning the hearts of Indian television viewers and specially of those who love to see talented voice compete with each others on musical competitive shows on television this beautiful girl also acted in a Bollywood movie. Her debuted Bollywood movie was Socha Na Tha which was a project of Dharmendra Production. In this movie, she played a supporting role against her co-star Abhay Deol.

In the year 2012, she performed for MTV Unplugged and recently, she appeared on the comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma as a celebrity. She is now a successful playback singer for various Bollywood projects. There is a long list of popular music numbers under her belt and she has won a number of awards including the Filmfare RD Burman Award as best singer in the year 2013.

Casting Directors in Bollywood were a new concept couple of years ago. But now, every production house has space to accommodate the Casting Directors. And these Directors have assistants for themselves to help them carry out the hustling task of going through hundreds of profiles. Shruti Mahajan, a Jaipur bred Casting Director is relatively new to this arena. Shruti has around two and a half years invested in the industry and has already been applauded for her work by many. 
It was Sameer Sharma who was convinced that Shruti needed to be in the Bollywood industry somehow and saw something in her. He later gave her first Yash Raj opportunity in YRF itself as an Assistant Casting Director. Shruti had a contract of one year with YRF and had already got the taste of Bollywood, and her knack to cast the spot on faces grew tremendously. Married to Cinematographer Sachin Krishn, Shruti turned a new leaf and got acquainted with the eat-breathe-live cinema lifestyle. She successfully holds her own Casting agency today. 
From Jaipur to Mumbai, being a Casting Director was not something that was planned and executed for this young woman. Shruti reckons the times where she was expected to be like any other girl- to have a degree and a morning till evening job at a big MNC. She did, however, did her part of getting a degree (MBA) and was working for an MNC until Bollywood came calling. 
This light-hearted woman shares her working experience with big names like Sanjay Leela Bhansali. She has the credit of three films for Bhansali Productions so far, and unquestionably it has enriched her experience in the field. Ramleela, Mary Com, and Baaji Rao Mastaani are the three prominent movies which helped Shruti grow to great heights in her career. BaajiRao Mastaani being Magnum Opus of Bhansali, Shruti considers herself blessed to have gotten the opportunity. She was hesitant in the beginning to work for Bhansali as the level of expectation is always high, but she was able to do a fantastic job with the casting for the film. She believes it is not just about the three protagonists Ranbir, Deepika, and Priyanka but getting each supporting actor for the movie was vital, and it accounts for the wholeness and perfection of the movie. She says it is so very important to have right cast as some directors ask for a perfect actor for a particular role. 
Shruti has around fifteen movies for her long list of successful ventures. In a short time of just two and a half years, Shruti has certainly made a name for herself. Casting Priyanka for Mary Com and Jai Gangajal took a lot of visionary efforts by Shruti. To be able to envision the actor for a certain role, given by the Director, and then going with guts needs experience and moreover needs that kind of talent. Shruti not only depends on a screen test of an actor but depends hugely on her gut feeling and intuition. She says that her intuition works beyond all the auditions and screen tests. 
When asked about working with various directors, Shruti says she loves her job, but it also involves a lot of thought process and understanding a director’s way of thinking. To be able to catch a director’s vision and his/her expectation from the character is a skill to possess and Shruti seems to have got that. She started out with Chkravyuh and Satyagrah with Prakash Jha and went on to cast for his later movie Jai Gangajal. The funny cast of Finding Fanny was her doing, and so was Shamitabh, which obviously has Amitabh Bachan in it and also a new face of Akshara Hassan in it. Her latest installment was Sarbjit which has Aishwarya, Randeep Hooda and Richa Chadda in it, giving a powerhouse performance. 
Addressing issues about the role of Casting Director in a movie, Shruti says that there is only so much you can do as a CD. One can only suggest and find a fresh face and discuss them with the director. She can, up to the maximum influence her opinions about an actor to the Director, the final call is the Director. She ultimately has to respect what a Director needs. Shruti enjoys her work to the fullest and like every other CD, she too wishes to launch fresh faces into the industry as she says it her small way of contributing to the world of Cinema. 

Charu Shree Roy is a film editor who predominantly works in Bollywood movies. She began her career by getting associated with short films as a director and writer. She has handled multiple short films since 2009, and they included 'Allah Is Great,’ 'Daag Daag Andhera,’ Mr & Mrs. Singh, 'Rip.’ Guddu Engineer,’ 'EI'ayichi' etc.

Parineeta Borthakur is an Assamese actress, who has been seen in several Hindi TV serials. She is recognized to audience after her first Assamese film "Nayak". Parineeta Borthakur is a gorgeous and gifted actress of Assam who did her schooling from Kendriya Vidyaaya, Dubliajun, Assam. She started her career as an actress with a telefilm "Nabajibon" when she was in Cotton College. Parineeta has received applauds for her performances, and her list of awards includes Limca fresh face runner up-2005 as well as Jyotirupa joint media Awards for Assamese movie ‘Nayak’. Some other Assamese movies to her credit include ‘Barood’, ‘Jibon Bator Logori’, 'Baralar Sanhar’, and ‘Pole Pole Ure Mon’. 

She has acted in several famous Hindi serials such as Mamta, Aahat, Chandan, Lavanya, Sonpari, Karamchand, CID, Special Squad, Yehi to Hain Wo, Birwali, Socha na tha and many more. These serials were telecasted on various channels. Parineeta has acted famous serials on DD-1 such as Urmila, Kasmakash Zindagi ki, Nargis, Sapne Sajon ke, Fir Bhi Dil Hain Hindustani, Kab Kyu Kaise. Parineeta Borthakur has acted in Bollywood films such as 'Harpal', 'Saas Bahu Aur Sensex' and superhit film 'Kurbaan' with Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan. Besides being a famous actress, she is a good singer too. She has also launched her video album "Parineeta”, which has been quite successful among the audience. In addition to this, she has done TV Commercials for Digene and Maruti Omni. She was recently seen in the comedy serial Pritam Pyaare aur Woh on Sab TV. She played the role of Gogi. Parineeta is married and mother of a child.

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Prakash Jha, a director, film producer and screenwriter, was born on 27th of February 1952. ‘Prakash Jha Productions’ is his production venture. Hailing from Bihar, Prakash Jha went on to study B.Sc Honors in Ramjas College. Eventually he stopped studies and came to Mumbai, wanting to be a painter. As he was preparing for entrance exam for a course in painting, Prakash Jha watched the movie Dharma, and thus developed a passion for film making. The year 1973 saw him joining the Film And Television Institute of India, Pune, in order to study editing. But unfortunately the studio was shut down and thus Prakash returned to Mumbai and earned his living. Initially Prakash Jha was working on documentaries. 

His documentary, 'Face After Storm' received the 'Best Non Feature Film National Award'. Prakash’s debut commercial film, Hip Hip Hurray was released in 1984. This film was written by Gulzar and had Deepti Naval starring in it. Then came Damul in the same year and its stupendous success made Prakash a filmmaker to reckon with. The film gained both the National Award and Filmfare Award. His flick Parinati was released during the year 1986. This film had the talented Nandita Das amongst others sharing screen space. The year 2010 saw Prakash directing the political thriller Rajneeti. The film took up the story of Mahabharat in today’s world. Ranbir Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Katrina Kaif, Arjun Rampal, Ajay Devgan, Nasureedin Shah and Manoj Bajpai acted in this film. Then Aarakshan was released which had Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone and Saif Ali Khan sharing screen space. 

During 2012 Prakash’s film Chakravyuh, starring Abhay Deol, Kabir Bedi and Arjun Rampal, amongst others was released. Prakash Jha also had a brief stint in politics but it didn’t work out. He is greatly involved in social activism; he is committed to a NGO named Anubhooti. Prakash Jha also did quite some TV serials. On his personal front, Prakash Jha was wedded to Deepti Naval but later divorced. This couple had adopted a girl.

Sushant Singh is an Indian film actor and a host of television shows. He was born in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, India on 9 March 1972. He mentioned in an interview that he was not a very cool guy during his college times. He did his schooling from Nainital from Birla Vidya Mandir. He was passionate about being an actor since his childhood, and so he joined Ebrahim Alkazi Living Theatre Academy in 1992. He participated in a few plays there like Greek Tragedy and Death of a Salesman. He entered Bollywood in 1998 in the movie called Satya directed by Ram Gopal Varma.

Vaibbhav Tatwawdi is a Hindi and Marathi film actor who was born on 25th of September, 1988 in Maharashtra, India. His parents are Dr. Vivek Tatwawadi and Sheela. He has a younger brother named Gaurav Tatwawadi. His father is the head of an Indian Engineering college and his mother is a homemaker. He studied in the Somalwar High School. After completing school, he joined the College of Engineering, Pune and obtained his Engineering degree. He had a desire to become an actor since his childhood. During his college days, he involved actively in the stage plays and dramas. In 2011, after completing his Engineering degree, he moved to Mumbai and tried to find work in Indian film industry. However, he started his career as a film actor in 2014 with “Surajya”. Surajya is a production of Santhosh Manjrekar and Vaibbhav received good reviews from critics and viewers for his acting. However, the film wasn’t a commercially that successful. His second film is “Coffee Ani Barach Kahi” directed by Prakash Kunte. It was a romance movie and the heroine was Prarthana Behere. Vaibbhav played the role of Nishad and the film was a commercial success. He received excellent reviews for his performances from the viewers of the film. Followed by the success of “Coffee Ani Barach Kahi”, his second film release in 2015 was “Hunterrr”. Hunterrr is directed by Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni and it’s an adult comedy movie. Vaibbhav did a supporting role as Kshitij and the film was a Bollywood hit. Some of his upcoming Marathi movies are “Cheater”, “Lipstick Wale Sapne” and “Shortcut”. Lipstick Wale Sapne is a production of Prakash Jha. Vaibbhav shares the screen space with critically acclaimed actors like Konkana Sen and Ratna Pathak Shah in this movie. At present, he is involved in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bajirao Mastani and he played the role of Chimaji Appa.

Jawarani Udit is an assistant director, editor and music video director. He was born in Delhi. Jawarani Udit started his journey as a director with some feature films. He tied up with Prakash Jha Productions and made some films Aarakshan, Chakravyuh, Satyagraha, Lipstick Under My Burkha from 2011-2015. He also worked as an associate director for the films Dolly, Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitaare, which are produced by Balaji Telefilms. Jawarani Udit directed ads for some of the top brands like Stayfree, Myntra, Forte, The Better India, and Neurobin. Jawarani Udit was the founder and director of Feel Media Productions.

Tushar Seth is a Mumbai-based film director who is working on mainstream Bollywood projects. Tushar started his journey in the cinema industry as a writer in 2011 for a short film called Via Kargil. He then worked on marketing and publicity for teams of various projects like Aarakshan(2011), Chakravyuha (2012), and Satyagraha (2013). He has also worked as an Assistant Director on mainstream Bollywood projects like Chakravyuha (2012), Satyagraha (2013), Stupid Cupid (2015), Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016), Dear Maya (2017), Bhoomi (2017), Soorma (2018), Love (2019) and a few web series including Four More Shots Please (2019), and The Family Man (2021).

Kuldeep Yadav is an India-based casting director and actor who works in the Bollywood film industry. He was born in Mumbai but belongs to Uttar Pradesh. He is indulged in the work of casting for 3 years. Some of the works he is known for are Ek Mahanayak – Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, a TV series having 634 episodes, which started to air on 17 December 2019. Its cast includes Neha Joshi, Prasad Jawad, and Jagannath Nivangune. He also worked in India's Most Sansanikhez Kahaniyan, a thriller television series having 62 episodes, which aired in 2021.

Akshay Mudwakar is a Marathi actor who works in TV serials and films. Born in Nasik, he shifted to Mumbai and chose acting as his career. He entered the modeling field in the hope of getting chances in films. He participated in several ramp walks and fashion shows. He also has been a theatre artist and performs in many stage shows, such as Gandhi Hatya Aanimi. Akshay started acting in the short film 'A Piece of Paper.' The film was released in 2019 and received mixed responses from the audience. He has acted in TV programs. The 2019 Marathi Biography serial 'Swarajyajanani Jijamata' was widely appreciated by the audience.

Parag Mehta is a casting director, who works predominantly in the Bollywood film industry. Parag is currently one of the most hardworking and top most casting directors working in the movie business. After completing his graduation, Parag started working in theatres. He acted, directed and produced during his theatre days. He then moved on to working in movies. He was hired as the casting director for many commercials and infomercials.

Jagat is an actor in the entertainment industry. He worked in various films, such as “Lipstick Under My Burkha," which revolves around the stories of four women who want to be independent and remove the barriers of the conservative Indian society. They set out on a journey to find freedom and happiness in their lives. He plays the role of Jaspal in this movie. It was released on September 8, 2017, and was directed by Alankrita Shrivastava. “Jai Gangaajal" revolves around the story of Abha Mathur, who is a newly appointed senior inspector and faces struggles from the powerful goons and does not have any support from her police department.

Vaibhav Tatwawaadi is an Indian actor/host who was born on September 25th, 1988 in Nagpur, Maharashtra. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs in around 75 KG. His hair color is Black. His Zodiac sign is Libra. He had done schooling from Somalwar High School, Nagpur. He completed his Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune. His hobbies are Travelling & doing Workout. He has received many prestigious awards like Dadasaheb Phalke excellence award in 2018, the title of “Maharashtra’s most desirable man” in 2018 and he became an “achiever” at the 7th Annual NBC Newsmaker awards in 2016. His father’s name is Dr. Vivek Tatwawaadi (Head of Engineering college).

Vikrant Massey, who is a TV actor, was born in Nagpur. He is also a dancer and worked as choreographer for various shows. He has been noted by several people for the leading roles in several TV serials. One such serial is ‘Dharam Veer’, which was a period drama that was presented to the people by Sagar Arts. This series was aired on NDTV Imagine. His role in ‘Balika Vadhu’, which was a drama series that aired on Colors TV, was also very popular.

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