Begum Jaan
Cinema in India
In this film about the Partition of India, in 1948, Vidya Balan plays a role far from her usual glamorous roles.
In Begum Jaan she plays the head of a group of ladies in a brothel in Kashmir. She has set up her business in an area she thought would be beneficial to men travelling. In 1948, the British government split India into three parts, India, Pakistan, and Bengal; the reason was the arguments between Hindus, and Muslims in India.
Though repeatedly ordered to move, she refuses saying, "When I built my business there was no border; you made the borders, why should I choose which country I am living in?"
The film Rajkahini looks at a similar case only in the Bengal area.
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