A spectacular Lahore fantasy: Heeramandi, Kalank and their fictional tawaifs
A Lahore student compares the web series ‘Heeramandi’ and film ‘Kalank’, both centred on Partition-era Lahore courtesans, and finds that both period dramas fail to capture the tawaifs’ history and the city’s significance, which remain misrepresented in Bollywood’s romanticised gaze.
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