Looks like the poster only gave us a hint of what Vidya Balan’s Begum Jaan was going to be like.
The trailer for the Srijit Mukherji film, which was released on Tuesday, gives us a much better idea - Vidya Balan is fierce. And we mean it in every sense of the word.
She swaggers and smirks her way through the trailer of this Partition era drama, right from the opening shot of her putting on her blouse, all the way till her threat of ‘partitioning’ any man who dares to evict her from her house.
Begum Jaan is a remake of the Bengali Rajkahini , telling the story of a brothel madam through whose home the newly-drawn border between India and Pakistan runs. Begum Jaan , however, shifts the story from West Bengal to Punjab. The characters are Punjabi, rather than Bengali, but the sentiment remains the same, the milieu remains the same.
Around Vidya Balan is also a stellar cast that includes Naseeruddin Shah, Ila Arun, Gauahar Khan, Pallavi Sharda, Ashish Vidyarthi and more.
The trailer promises a lot of action and drama along with some terrifyingly charged moments, structured around Vidya Balan. But the question that’s going be on everyone’s minds - is Vidya Balan going one-up Rituparna Sengupta’s original performance?
Watch the trailer and find out.
