Begum Jaan (2017)
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.
Country: India
Directors: Srijit Mukherji
Casts: Vidya Balan as Begum Jaan, Naseeruddin Shah as Rajaji, Ridheema Tiwari as Amba, Gauahar Khan as Rubina, Pallavi Sharda as Gulabo, Mishti Chakravarty as Shabnam, Ila Arun as Amma, Flora Saini as Maina, Vivek Mushran as Master, Rajesh Sharma as Shyam, Pitobash Tripathy as Surjeet, Sumit Nijhawan as Salim Mirza, Ashish Vidhyarthi as Harshvardhan, Chunky Pandey as Kabir, Rajit Kapoor as Ilias, Ashok Dhanuka as Vallabhbhai Patel, Amitabh Bachchan as Narrator, Raviza Chauhan as Lata
