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Bhumi Pednekar is a force to reckon with in the industry today. Churning out one commercial success after another, her films have her playing powerful characters who challenge mindsets and more.

After a long night of passionate love making (thrice, as the conversation the morning after reveals), new bride Jaya (Bhumi Pednekar, 28) and her mustachioed husband Keshav Sharma (Akshay Kumar) are roused, from what is understandably blissful slumber, with incessant knocking on their bedroom window. Turns out, the lota party (a group of women from the village who follow the century old tradition of taking to the bushes every morning at 4 am to defecate for lack of toilets at home) is ready to welcome Jaya to their

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