India’s Alankrita Shrivastava won The Spirit Of Asia Award for her Lipstick Waale Sapne (Lipstick Under My Burkha) at the Tokyo International Film Festival that ended on Thursday evening. A movie tracing the struggles of four women, two Hindus and two Muslims, living in close proximity to one another in Bhopal, proved a hit with many Japanese who evinced a keen interest to watch the work. The catchy title may have done the trick to seduce people towards a film where a tube of lipstick acts as a liberator.

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