Gangubai Kathiawadi
2022 · Movie · 152 min. · India
Young Ganga is tricked by her boyfriend with the promise of a film career and persuaded to leave the countryside for Mumbai. Once there, she is sold to a brothel in Kamathipura – India’s main red-light district in the 1950s – where her resistance is broken and she is coerced into servicing clients. But Ganga’s rebellious spirit endures. She may have no choice but to accept her circumstances but she can at least bend them in her favour. She becomes the feared Gangubai, champion of prostitutes who, allied with the neighbourhood Mafiosi boss, will be the first woman to raise her voice to advocate for the rights of sex workers’ and their children.
Direction Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Cast Alia Bhatt · Ajay Devgan · Emraan Hashmi · Vijay Raaz · Seema Bhargava · Shantanu Maheshwari · Tareeq Ahmed Khan · Baldev Trehan · Abhinay Raj Singh · Indira Tiwari
Soundtrack Ankit Balhara · Sanchit Balhara · Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Screenplay Sanjay Leela Bhansali · Utkarshini Vashishtha · Hussain Zaidi
Cinematography Sudeep Chatterjee
Original title Gangubai Kathiawadi
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55 votes (FilmAffinity)
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