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    Begum Jaan

    2017

    Hindi

    5.6

    ♡ 8

    8%

    69%

    Action

    border

    brothel

    colonial india

    Drama

    History

    india pakistan border

    period drama

    prostitution

    Srijit Mukherji Srijit Mukherji Director Vidya Balan Vidya Balan as Begum Jaan Rajit Kapoor Rajit Kapoor as Ilias Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah as Rajaji Rajesh Sharma Rajesh Sharma as Shyam
    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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