Leela (Aahana Kumra), a young beautician who runs her own parlor in the neighborhood. She steals make-up to wear at college where she takes off the burkha, which she is forced to wear by her family and transforms into a jeans-wearing singer who loves Miley Cyrus.
Rehana Abidi (Plabita Borthakur), a fresher in college, lives in the same neighborhood and sews burkhas for her family's store. In a small neighborhood in Bhopal, Usha serves as the old matriarch and has become used to being addressed as "Buaji" (Aunty) she has all but forgotten her own name and routinely gazes at a self-portrait from her youth. Throughout the film, her story is narrated by a 55-year-old widow, Usha Parmar (Ratna Pathak), as she reads the novel in secrecy. Rosy is introduced as the heroine of an erotic pulp fiction novel titled Lipstick Dreams.
The film received two nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film (Critics) and Best Supporting Actress for Ratna Pathak. The film premiered at the Tokyo and Mumbai Film Festivals, where it won the Spirit of Asia Prize and the Oxfam Award for Best Film on Gender Equality. The film was initially denied a release in India in January 2017, after the country's Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) refused a certificate, stating that "There are contagious sexual scenes, abusive words, audio pornography and a bit sensitive touch about one particular section of society". The first trailer was released on 14 October 2016. Even after facing all the odds and obstacles in their way, they still manage to find their way to claim their desires through small acts of courage.
The movie shows the secret lives of four women who are in search of their freedom. The film stars an ensemble cast including Ratna Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur in leading roles, along with Sushant Singh, Sonal Jha, Vikrant Massey, Shashank Arora, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi and Jagat Singh Solanki in supportive roles. Lipstick Under My Burkha is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language black comedy film written and directed by Alankrita Shrivastava and produced by Prakash Jha.
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