Ashok Dhanuka

As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigates the fallout of his actions for years to come.

On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission, Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves. What the administration doesn’t account for is the line running through the middle of Begum Jaan’s brothel situated plonk on the border; with one half falling in India and the other in Pakistan.

Two close friends have been together since childhood. However, with time, they face many problems that affect their friendship as well as lives.

In August 1947, the British passed a bill regarding the partition of Bengal. Delving into the grim history of the Partition, Mukherjee's movie Rajkahini is woven around a border between the two nations that runs through a brothel housing 11 women.