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Mirzapur’s Beena Tripathi is proof — a woman doesn’t need a gun to wield power

Unlike the men of Mirzapur, who use a bruised ego to justify murder, Beena Tripathi is patient. The loud and violent underestimate her and that is why they lose.

Money, muscle, guns and upper-caste syndrome are the mark of every male character in Mirzapur. And they use it to survive in Kaleen Bhaiyya’s kingdom. However his wife, Beena Tripathi is different. She has no muscle, no army of men, no gun in hand. What she has is intelligence and instinct, and those turn out to be far more useful weapons.

Beena, played by Rasika Dugal, never wanted the life she was forced into. She never wanted to marry Kaleen Bhaiya, played by Pankaj Tripathi. There is an age gap, he cannot perform in bed, and she hates the violent world he lives in. Even her father-in-law, Satyanand Tripathi, played by Kulbhushan Kharbanda, mistreats her. Beena is harassed by almost every man in the family.

But Mirzapur: The Movie (2026) tells us why she married Kaleen. Beena........

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