Lipstick Under My Burkha: A still from the film (courtesy Taran Adarsh)
Highlights
- Lipstick Under My Burkha made Rs 7.08 crores
- 'Monday bigger than Friday,' tweeted Taran Adarsh
- The film made Rs 1.28 crores on Monday
is picking up pace at the box office.
Lipstick Under My Burkha, which
recorded a score of Rs 1.22 crores on its opening day (July 21), kick-started the week with a sum higher than #Day1 - a performance which has been reviewed as "super strong" by trade analyst Taran Adarsh. "
Lipstick Under My Burkha has super strong Monday... Mon day bigger than Friday," tweeted Mr Adarsh.
Lipstick Under My Burkha, which released last Friday, almost doubled its first day collection figures on each of Sunday and Saturday. Directed by Alankrita Shrivastava,
LipstickUnderMyBurkha casts Ratna Pathak Shah and Konkana Sen Sharma along with actresses like Aahana Kumra and Plabita Borthakur as protagonists.
Mr Adarsh also presented a detailed scoreboard of
Lipstick Under My Burkha's ticket sales with Friday and Monday as Rs 1.22 crores and Rs 1.28 crores respectively. On Saturday and Sunday, the film has made Rs 2.17 crores and Rs 2.41 crores with the total collection resulting in up to Rs 7.08 crores.
Lipstick Under My Burkha, which battled an unfair amount of resistance from the Censor Board ahead of its release, has been reviewed as the
"funny", dark" and "necessary" by celebrities who enjoyed a special screening of the film.
In his review for NDTV, Saibal Chatterjee said the four lead actresses "turn in brilliant performances, giving the bold, brassy, colourful drama an added edge."
Lipstick Under My Burkha tracks the life of four women - two Muslim characters and two Hindu - who reside in the same house. Their rebellion against social prejudices and their taste for the "prohibited" is what made the Censor Board dismiss it as "lady oriented" but is also what struck the right chord with many.