Begum Jaan

Begum Jaan
Film poster
Directed bySrijit Mukherji
Written byKausar Munir (Dialogue)
Screenplay bySrijit Mukherji
Kausar Munir
Story bySumair Malik
Based onRajkahini
Produced byMukesh Bhatt
Vishesh Bhatt
Mahendra Soni
Shrikant Mohta
StarringVidya Balan
Ila Arun
Naseeruddin Shah
Rajit Kapoor
Ashish Vidyarthi
Vivek Mushran
Chunky Pandey
Gauahar Khan
Pallavi Sharda
Mishti
Narrated byAmitabh Bachchan
CinematographyGopi Bhagat
Edited byMonisha R. Baldawa
Vivek Mishra
Music byAnu Malik (songs)
Indraadip Dasgupta (Background score)
Production
companies
Vishesh Films
Shree Venkatesh Films
Play Entertainments
Khurana Productions
Distributed byNH Studioz (India)
White Hill Studios (North America)
Magic Cloud (Overseas)
Release date
  • 14 April 2017 (2017-04-14)
Running time
127 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi
Budget19 crore[1]
Box office30.6 crore[2]

Begum Jaan is a 2017 Indian Hindi period drama film. It is directed and co-written by National Film Award-winning director Srijit Mukherji in his Hindi directional debut and produced by Mukesh Bhatt, Vishesh Bhatt and Play Entertainment. The film is co-produced by Sakshi Bhatt and Shree Venkatesh Films with executive producer Kumkum Saigal. The cinematography is done by Gopi Bhagat. Lyrics, additional screenplay and dialogues have been penned by Kausar Munir and Rahat Indori.

The film was released on 14 April 2017.[3] Vidya Balan plays the lead role of a brothel's madam, set against the backdrop of the newly-Independent Indian of 1948. It is a Hindi remake of the critically acclaimed Bengali film Rajkahini (2015). The film managed to recover its costs and was declared "average" commercially.

  1. ^ "Begum Jaan". Box Office India. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  2. ^ Bollywood Hungama News Network (15 April 2017). "Box Office: Worldwide collections and day wise break up of Begum Jaan". Bollywood Hungama. Hungama Digital Media Entertainment. Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
  3. ^ Ray, Dhritiman (14 April 2016). "Mahesh Bhatt's Rajkahini remake being shot in Jharkhand". The Times of India. The Times Group. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2016.