"Lipstick Under My Burkha" is a 2016 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Sanjay Mishra. The movie stars Sushmita Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Manish Batra, and Shaukat Hussain. The film premiered at the 2016 Busan International Film Festival and received critical acclaim for its bold and nuanced portrayal of women's lives in India.
Before discussing the pirated .mkv file, one must understand why people resorted to piracy in the first place. In early 2016, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), then headed by Pahlaj Nihalani, refused to certify Lipstick Under My Burkha . The reason? The board called the film “lady-oriented” (a term they later had to apologize for), “pornographic,” and filled with “sexual fantasies” that were “too dark.”
