Sanjay Leela Bhansali overtly mentioned his fascination with tawaifs and courtesans in connection together with his newest launch, Heeramandi.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali is dominating headlines together with his current launch, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar. The collection delves into the lives of courtesans and intercourse employees in his collection, which is now obtainable on Netflix. Nevertheless, this isn’t the primary time SLB has explored this theme. Beforehand, his blockbuster movie Gangubai Kathiawadi additionally revolved across the lifetime of a intercourse employee with the identical identify. Now, in a current interview with Galatta Plus, the director expressed his deep curiosity in exploring this specific archetype in his movies.
Through the interview, the acclaimed director expressed, “I really feel they’re girls who’ve a whole lot of enigma, a whole lot of thriller. The courtesan, or the tawaif, or the prostitute… they’re totally different. However they all the time exude a sure sort of energy which I discover very attention-grabbing to have a look at. I discovered that very fascinating, that these girls are very attention-grabbing. The place they sing, they dance. The place they categorical themselves; their pleasure and their grief in music and dance. They perceive the artwork of residing, the significance of structure, using material, and the sort of jewelry they put on. They’re connoisseurs of artwork.”
He elaborated additional, stating, “Hum log kya hein? Hum log artist log hain. Usko ap samajhgir bolo, bhand bolo… jo chahe bolo. Mere ko to woh chahiye. I’ve to create one thing that could be very enigmatic. As a toddler, all these folks that will go by… mein faculty mein jaata hu toh ye chehre mujhe fascinate karte he. Waha pe jo ration ki line mein jo chaar middle-class housewives khade hain woh mujhe fascinate nahi karti.”
Bhansali additionally talked about the inspiration he derived from Madhubala in ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ and Nargis Dutt in ‘Adaalat.’ Moreover, he cited affect from the works of V Shantaram, giving particular acknowledgement to Ritwik Ghatak’s ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara.’
About Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar
The collection relies on the lives of Tawaifs who lived in Lahore’s Heeramandi. These courtesans had been as soon as the queens of Lahore. Heeramandi was a hub for information, artwork, tradition, and music. Nevertheless, after the arrival of the British, the variety of Tawaifs declined, and the world was a red-light district.