Bollywood ditches razzmatazz for sex work and its purveyors love it

Biopic about Mumbai sex worker turned women’s rights champion has been welcomed by the marginalised group

23 May 2022 - 20:44 By Roli Srivastava

The brothels look brighter, the alleyways are cleaner and a stirring soundtrack accompanies the protagonists, but a new Bollywood film set in Kamathipura, Mumbai’s red-light district, has struck a chord with India's roughly one-million sex workers...

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