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The Courtesans of Bombay
(1983)
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directed by
Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
featuring
Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal, Kareem Samar
The Merchant-Ivory team adopts a semi-documentary stance in Courtesans of Bombay. Though several scenes are dramatized, this film is essentially an unadorned look at prostitution in modern India. The film details the impoverished conditions that would prompt otherwise chaste Indian women to seek out employment as "performers"--a euphemism for the ...
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