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'Begum Jaan': It's no 'Mandi', but an experience

The allegory of a brothel perched precariously on No Man's Land is hammered with ferocious dramatic devices like thunderous background music and seismic camera angles. The impact of the 'ribaldry during times of Partition' theme is completely submerged in lengthy lectures on the politics of sex and communalism.