It takes balls to be a woman.
Lipstick Under My Burkha
36Standing
230th of 316 in Bollywood
- Out-grossed 16% of Bollywood releases with reported figures ($4M).
- Returned 4.4× its budget, against an industry median of 2.5×.
- Momentum in the 18th percentile.
- Audience rating 6.8 from 108 votes, the 59th percentile.
- Cost
- $922K
- Took
- $4M
Blockbuster4.4× its cost
Against a Bollywood median of 2.5×, so this one returned 1.8 times what a typical release there does.
The money says blockbuster. What do you say?
The picture
Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.
- Released
- 21 July 2017
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Language
- Hindi
- Industry
- Bollywood
Top billedAll 19 credits
- Aahana KumraLeela
- Ratna Pathak ShahUsha "Rosy" Buaji
- Plabita BorthakurRehana Abidi
- Konkona Sen SharmaShireen Aslam
- Shashank AroraDhruv
- Vikrant MasseyArshad
Made by
- Director
- Alankrita Shrivastava
- Screenplay
- Suhani Kanwar, Alankrita Shrivastava
- Original Music Composer
- Mangesh Dhakade
- Director of Photography
- Akshay Singh
- Producer
- Prakash Jha
Filed under
ComedyDrama