Nobody does it like Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
Known for the sheer opulence he brings to the screen as a director - complete with perfect colour palettes and imperfect characters - the mega visionary is back with a passion project of 14 years.
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, now streaming on Netflix, is a period drama series about the lives of tawaifs or courtesans at the red-light district of Heeramandi in Lahore in undivided India.
It's everything that you want to see in an offering from India on such a global scale.Sonakshi Sinha
The show tries to un-erase women who fought for their freedom, each other’s freedom and the freedom of India from British colonisation.
But little is known and acknowledged about the women who reckoned with a society that wants them but won’t respect them.
Just because they are tawaifs (courtesons), doesn't mean people will have their way with them.Aditi Rao Hydari
Dilpreet speaks with two lead actors of the show, Sonakshi Sinha and Aditi Rao Hydari who join her virtually from India.
They talk about female gaze, sexual power and why Heeramandi has the west in a chokehold.
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