Lipstick Under My Burkha

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Lipstick Under My Burkha

2017

1h 56m

6.8(102 votes)

Comedy

Drama

Overview

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.

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Cast & Crew

34 members

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Aahana Kumra

Leela

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Ratna Pathak Shah

Usha "Rosy" Buaji

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Plabita Borthakur

Rehana Abidi

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Konkona Sen Sharma

Shireen Aslam

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Shashank Arora

Dhruv

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विक्रान्त मैस्सी

Arshad

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Sushant Singh

Rahim Aslam

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Sonal Jha

Leela's mother

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Mayur More

Michael Jackson

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Akash Sisodia

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Vaibhav Tatwawadi

Unknown Role

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Anwar Khan

Abidi

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Namita Dubey

Namrata

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Rajesh Tiwari

Ram

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Ahmed Khan

Madanlal

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Preeti Kochar

Zeba

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Garima Goel

Preeti

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Disha Arora

Fatima

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Jatin Jaiswal

Lakhan

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Sonal Joshi

Sita

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Vyoma Parihar

Lakshmi

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Sahiba Vij

Chanda

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Saurabh Pandey

Veer

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Disha Patwa

Komal

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Sarthak Ganguli

Afzal

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Aparna Ghoshal

Poonam

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Smith Mehta

Gupta

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Deepak Parihar

Shroff

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Shivangi Jai Pawar

Lata Behenji

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Dev Sharma

Chotu

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Vikalp Sood

Danish

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Vyapak Sood

Guddu

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Ranbeer Thakur

Duggu

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Jagat Singh

Jaspal

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