Begum Jaan (2017)
My Body. My House. My Country. My Rules.
128 min
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.
- Release date
- April 14, 2017
- Country of origin
- India
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Trailer
Cast
- Vidya Balan as Begum Jaan
- Naseeruddin Shah as Rajaji
- Pallavi Sharda as Gulabo
- Gauahar Khan as Rubina
- Ila Arun as Amma
- Priyanka Setia as Jameela
- Flora Saini as Maina
- Mishti Chakravarty as Shabnam
- Gracy Goswami
- Pitobash as Surjeet
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Harshvardhan
- Rajit Kapoor as Ilias
- Rajesh Sharma as Shyam
- Chunky Pandey as Kabir
- Vivek Mushran as Master
- Ashok Kumar Dhanuka as Vallabhbhai Patel
- Amitabh Bachchan as Narrator
- Mansi Sharma
- Ridhiema Tiwari as Amba
- Poonam Rajput as Rani
Crew
- Srijit Mukherji · Director
- Srijit Mukherji · Writer
- Mukesh Bhatt · Producer
- Vishesh Bhatt · Producer
- Milind Dabke · Producer
- Anu Malik · Composer
- Monisha R Baldawa · Editor
- Mukesh Chhabra · Casting director