Lily or Lakshmi Gondhali (Amruta Subhash) the bar dancer-turned-sex-worker is out to dismantle the system by trying to force her way into the genteel society which will not have her and faces her fair share of misogyny and humiliation from all ideological institutions whereas Ayesha (Plabita Borthakur), a new joinee at the Royal Bank is wobbling on shaky terrain trying to explore her sexuality and her career prospects simultaneously, oscillating between the two. In Bombay Begums, if Rani Irani (Pooja Bhatt) the newly appointed CEO of Royal Bank of Bombay tries to do it by refusing to cow down under pressure or retract her steps or give in to misogynistic vibes which she predictably prompts by the virtue of embodying the uncomfortable paradox of being a woman and at the helm of affairs, Fatima Warsi (Shahana Goswami) her junior, does it by subverting the patriarchal institution of marriage and motherhood from within, albeit unconsciously at times.
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