28th February, Mumbai: Bollywood movies and their trending stories change from time to time. Earlier there have been a lot of movies presenting the stories based on the life of sex workers also known as tawaif in Hindi . Coming back to the movie’s main subject, we often look at the sex workers as people of lower category but there are some bollywood movies which have completely changed our mindset.
Presenting you a series of movies that you should definitely watch to get a completely different perspective about the tawaifs.
Laaga chunari mein daag
This 2007 released Hindi language drama movie is directed by pradeep sarkar and the star cast of the movies are Jaya Bachchan,Rani mukherji, Anupam Kher, Abhishek Bachchan, kunal kapoor and konkan sen Sharma. This unique movie was made and directed by Yash Raj films.
The story of the movie revolves around a girl from Varanasi who wants to support her family by giving financial support . So she comes to Mumbai with big dreams and hope which turns into a smash because the city of dreams becomes the city of bad virtues and she finds no means to earn money and therefore she chooses to become a call girl and tries to hide her profession from her sister. But later when her sister finds out the truth . This story shows the real sufferings of a poor girl who has to become an escort to fulfill the needs of the family.
Chameli
Second movie in our list is Kareena Kapoor Khan’s movie Chameli which was released in 2004 . This movie represents the story of a prostitute named chameli who meets a rich buisness man named Aman Kapoor on a rainy stormy night,Aman has recently lost his wife and is very sad and depressed with his life while chameli has been sold to the brothel by his uncle when she was quite young, later both of them fell in love and their life changes completely. This movie shows how a prostitute can also be loved and can also live a respectful life.
Begum Jaan
This movie stars Vidya Balan in the lead role and was released in the year 2017 and is written and directed by national award winner Srijit Mukherji and produced by mukesh Bhatt, sakshi Bhatt and vishesh Bhatt. In this movie Vidya Balan plays the role of Brothel madam . The story depicts eleven prostitutes who refuse to part ways with their brothel and each other during the partition between India and Pakistan. The story also shows how Vidya Balan in the role of Begum Jaan fights to save her brothel buisness during the turbulent politics.
Chori chori chupke chupke
This movie released in the year 2001 and the main role of the prostitute was played by none other than preety Zinta . The story of the movie turns around a prostitute named Madhu who agrees to become a surrogate mother of Raj’s baby in exchange of crores of money but later she falls in love with Raj due to his care and concern towards him but she later realised that as a prostitute she can’t live a normal life with respect love and caring partner.
This movie shows how even a prostitute develops real feelings and emotions for a person and also wants to live a normal life but cannot due to societal restrictions.
Anaarkali Of Aarah
This movie puts the light on the safety of women who are involved in sex work or who are ‘treated’ as sex workers. Anaarkali is an orchestra singer who fights for justice when society thinks that the vulgar treatment is normal for somebody in her profession. We beat around the bush when it comes to this discussion but the film and the characters made sure to be vocal about it. This movie shows a completely different aspect of the Sex workers.
These were our findings of the movies based on sex workers, don’t forget to share your reviews with us in the comments below.