Bollywood has been obsessed with the courtesan culture for long. The mujra song and the courtesan with a golden heart were a stereotypical staple. She loved the male hero unconditionally, sacrificed ...
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Web Series Heeramandi has been shot so majestically that it forgot to check if the characters are ...
Heeramandi' does deserve more than just the charges of criticism involving scale, wasted energies & resources on massive sets ...
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s new show was a wonderful chance to fictionalise the powerful cultural legacy of courtesans: be it Mah ...
According to Pakistani film critic Omer Adil, filmmakers of the subcontinent have created a fantasy chimaera, a celluloid courtesan, which has nothing to do with tawaifs. On 4 April 1968, Bansgaon MP ...
The release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, has once again brought the story of ...
Bhansali would have achieved something remarkable if he had examined and portrayed the beauty, grace, talent and uniqueness ...
Who were the real tawaifs? As Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Heeramandi starts the conversation again, Sufi Kathak exponent Manjari Chaturvedi tells the stories of strong and independent artistes and how ...
Vijay Mallya is a phenomenon that never gets old – be it on the news or on celluloid. The elusive ‘King of Good Times’ evokes ...
Bollywood is having a moment on social media. If you’ve been on Instagram or TikTok of late, chances are high that you’ve either scrolled past or watched at least one video of users trying the ...
Bollywood has been obsessed with the courtesan culture for long. The mujra song and the courtesan with a golden heart were a stereotypical staple. She loved the male hero unconditionally ...