Ratna Pathak Shah in the role of Buaji in Lipstick Under My Burkha

Alankrita Shrivastava's Lipstick Under My Burkha is a poignant, brutally honest and compelling film about ordinary women and their desires. Bollywood's stereotypes have so firmly etched the heroine's sole aim in life as getting married to the hero, that to find ordinary women actively struggling to avoid marriage or struggling within it, has come as a shock and a revelation to the Censor Board. They tried hard to ban the film because "the story is lady-oriented, their fantasy about life", which the appellate tribunal cleared with an 'A' certificate.