Leela, who aspires to become a wedding planner, has plans to run away with Arshad, but things aren't too easy for her. Shirin, being a homemaker, dreams to work and earn money for the family, but her conservative husband, played by Sushant Singh, just treats her as a sex machine. Her fantasy even compels her to do phone sex with him. Usha, at 55, is lonely and sexually attracted towards her young and sexy swimming coach Jaspal. Rihana (Plabita Borthakur) also lives in the neighbourhood with her orthodox parents. Beside her house, lives Leela (Aahana Kumra), who is madly in love with a small-time photographer Arshad (Vikrant Massey), but is forced to marry some other guy. Shirin ( Konkona Sen Sharma) lives in Usha's house as a tenant. Director Alankrita Shrivastava, who marked her debut with Turning 30 that featured Gul Panag, comes up with yet another film which touches upon the current status and sexual desires of women in our real India.īased in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Usha Parmar (Ratna Pathak Shah) runs her ancestral sweet shop. In the recent times, Pink, Maatr and Mom are success stories. With Ekta Kapoor's Dirty Picture in 2012, which almost changed the trend in Indian cinema, more filmmakers have come up with female-centric scripts. Producer Prakash Jha's Mrityudand was the depiction of a woman's heroic act against the evil and Lipstick Under My Burkha falls under the same category. Bollywood has been termed as a male-dominated industry since forever, but times are changing and so are the films.