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Heera Mandi is located inside the Walled City of Lahore, near the Taxali Gate, [3] and south of the Badshahi Mosque. [4] Heeramandi, originally a song and dance community rooted in the 'tawaif' culture during the Mughal period, first evolved into a hotspot for prostitution during the Ahmad Shah Durrani (1747- 1772) invasions of India.
Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar is a 2024 Indian Hindi-language period drama television series created and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali.The series is about the lives of tawaifs in the red-light district of Heera Mandi in Lahore during the Indian independence movement against the British Empire. [2]
Heera Mandi also called 'Shahi Mohalla', a defunct red light district, used to lie close to this gate, [1] where Mughal Emperors used to house their royal consorts. Taxali Gate also serves as Union Council 30 (UC 30) in Tehsil Ravi Town of Lahore City District of Punjab, Pakistan. There is a sense of religious harmony that once was in this area.
Gulzar was born in 1918 in a family of musicians in Heera Mandi at Lahore, British India. She was the daughter of Sardar Begum a famous singer of her time. She started learning ghazal at the age of seven and was trained by Ustad Fida Hussain. [3] Later she changed her name from Gulzar to Tamancha Jan after several years of training in music.
Guru Ram Das was born at Bazaar Chuna Mandi, Lahore in 1534 A.D. Guru Arjan Dev got the foundation stone of Harmandir Sahib, laid by a Muslim Saint Mian Mir Ji of Lahore in December 1588. Guru Arjan met an untimely death when he was tortured on the orders of the Emperor Jahangir in 1606 in this city.
Dawn newspaper, Karachi, describes Lahore's Heera Mandi area as, "Pakistan's oldest red light district was for centuries, a hub of traditional erotic dancers, musicians and prostitutes." [ 3 ] In many areas of the Indian subcontinent, they are called by different names – for example they are called tawaifs in North India and Pakistan (in ...
Tawaifs from Heera Mandi joined the Lollywood industry and gained much fame and wealth. Some of the most skilled tawaifs performed as backup dancers in early Pakistan films. [43] [32] [33] In Heera Mandi and surrounding areas, there were many dance classrooms and music classrooms, which were closed as the tawaifs and musicians left. [44]
Her first book, My Feudal Lord, released by Vanguard Books of Lahore in June 1991, caused controversy in Pakistan's society by describing her abusive and traumatic marriage to Ghulam Mustafa Khar. [12] His daughter Aaminah Haq is a Pakistani model and actress noted as a Lux model and for her role in the television drama Mehndi.