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Gangubai Harjeevandas (1928 – 8 September 1977), [a] better known as Gangubai Kothewali [3] [b] or Gangubai Kathiawadi, [3] [c] was an Indian social activist, sex worker and madam of a brothel in the Kamathipura area of Mumbai during the 1960s. Gangubai worked for the rights of sex workers and for the well-being of orphans. [5]
Gangubai Kathiawadi is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language biographical crime drama film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and produced by Bhansali and Jayantilal Gada.Based on the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai by S. Hussain Zaidi, it tells the story of Gangubai Kathiawadi, a simple girl from Kathiawad who is forced into prostitution and later rises to become a madam and an influential figure in Bombay ...
He is noted for playing gangster roles in Delhi Belly (2011) and Dedh Ishqiya (2014) as well as other notable films include Stree (2018), Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy (2019), Lootcase (2020), Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022). In 2014, he debuted as a director with Kya Dilli Kya Lahore. [2]
The film is inspired by the real-life story of Anurup Bhattacharya and Sagarika Chakraborty, an Indian couple whose children were taken away by Norwegian authorities in 2011. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The film was theatrically released worldwide on 17 March 2023. [ 7 ]
Alia Bhatt won several awards for playing the title role in Gangubai Kathiawadi Gangubai Kathiawadi is a 2022 biographical film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring Alia Bhatt in the title role of a young aspiring actress turned prostitute. Based on a chapter of Hussain Zaidi's book Mafia Queens of Mumbai, the screenplay was written by Bhansali and Utkarshini Vashishtha, with Prakash ...
Karim Lala (1911 – 19 February 2002), born Abdul Karim Sher Khan in the Samalam Village of the Shegal District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, was infamous as one of the three "mafia dons of Mumbai" in India for more than two decades from the sixties to the early eighties, [1] the other two being Mastan Mirza aka Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar.
In 2022, Bhansali directed Gangubai Kathiawadi, a biographical crime drama based on a chapter of Hussain Zaidi's book Mafia Queens of Mumbai. [42] The film about Gangubai Kothewali, stars Alia Bhatt as Gangubai, and was scheduled for release on 30 July 2021, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maheshwari starred opposite Alia Bhatt in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Gangubai Kathiawadi in 2022. The film marks his debut in Bollywood. [31] Shantanu's next film, Love in Vietnam, was announced at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. It co-stars Avneet Kaur and Vietnamese actress Kha Ngan, directed by Rahhat Shah Kazmi and produced by Omung Kumar.