Begum Jaan who runs a brothel in a village in Bengal, bordering India and Pakistan, desperately strives to save her declining business amidst the changing political scenario during the Partition.
Begum Jaan chronicles the life inside a whorehouse set in the middle of the India-Pakistan. unfortunately, Vidya balan who plays the tittle role cannot save hopelessly predictable plot. the film is such a terrible, bloated and tastelessly overdone copy of the Shabana Azmi starrer Mandi(1983) . overall music is quite good and cinematogarphy is fine.