The members of the brothel include an elderly woman known as Amma ( Ila Arun), Sujeet ( Pitobash Tripathy), a local worker who brings her customers and Salim ( Sumit Nijhawan), a gunman who guards them and also two dogs. The prostitutes in Begum Jaan's brothel are a number of girls she raised herself, who were either abandoned or disowned by their families and now work for her. This line was known as the Radcliffe Line.īegum Jaan ( Vidya Balan) is a prostitute who runs a brothel between the cities of Shakargarh and Dorangla. Radcliffe drew two lines – one in Punjab and another one in Bengal. In August 1947, after India sought independence from the British, the Last Viceroy of India, Mountbatten gave Cyril Radcliffe, the responsibility of dividing India into two parts – India and Pakistan. Movie opens with a small family and a young couple travelling in public transport in the late night, while the family getting down at their stop, a group of drunk goons gets into the bus and harasses the couple and tries to rape her where an old woman, saves the girl, undressing herself.
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