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

Besides Vidya's ineffectual hooker with a hookah act, the other girls, specially playing sex workers, seem to have a lot of fun with their parts when the writer-director is not looking. Srijit Mukherji, that remarkable director from Bengali cinema, is hellbent on taking the brothel of sex workers through a historic journey into India's partition. It's like pressing textbooks into the hands of a bunch of safari adventurers.