Review: Bombay Begums
Before I begin, I have to confess that I am not a big fan of Alankrita Shrivastav's work. I have had a chance to see her previous two outing, Lipstick under my Burqa and Dolly Kitty Ke Chamakte Sitare. And both of them failed to impress me. The message of femininity and trying to literally push it down viewers throat, gets a little too much and in Bombay Begum it is an encore too. There is a certain formulaic approach to how she looks at woman and that is weird. One understands for a society like India, we go with certain clichés and given norms. But... I for one, growing up in the heartland of Eastern UP have seen the status of Woman, Girls and infant girls at home and outside. I remember someone (unfortunately cannot disclose the identity or the relation) who actually fathered a child from his daughter because some holy saint had instructed him to get into a "sambhog" with his daughter for the greater good of the family. We were kids growing up and understood little of...