"The real body has the capacity to express large truths — of dignity, of pain, of survival of the self, this despite the traumas and anxieties which life is fraught with ... [my] works deal with an individual journey from desire through pain to survival." – Jehangir Jani.
short film in 35MM, screened at Lille film festival, Belgium and Uppsala film festival, Sweden, 2005
Directed by sculptor-turned-filmmaker Jehangir Jani, Make Ups dwells on Parveen's various quirks, including her obsession with boiled eggs. It stars Zeenath Aman in this role. It is ironical to note the plight of ‘single’ Bollywood film stars who are ageing.
Says Jehangir Jani, "The film is loosely based on Parveen Babi's life. Zeenat was very particular that people don't interpret it as a biography of Parveen Babi's
The film had a commercial release and was shown in many multiplexes. .
The film is about snatches of the lives of three characters living in Mumbai. It stars Vishwas Kulkarni as Jignesh, a gay man, Preetii Jaiin as Aaliya, a prostitute and Zeenat Aman as Nazia, an ageing actress.
The film has been submitted to the Cannes Festival for the Short Film Category and also to the Dresden Film Festival.

The film is a glimpse of a day in the lives of the three protagonists living in Mumbai. The characters are an ageing actress, a prostitute and a gay typist who negotiate their existence from the mundane to their transformation, and the search for their utopias.

Jehangir Jani.