Gangupo Katia Wadi is a 152-minute biographical film, produced by Indian Bhansali. Directed by Sanjay Anabel Bhansali and starring Ai Liya Bart and ajay devgan, the film was shown at the Berlin Film Festival on February 6-6, 2022.
The film is adapted from the novel The Mafia Queen of Mumbai by S Hussein Zaidi. It tells the story of Ganga Haji Vandas, a young rich woman, who eloped to Mumbai with her boyfriend, was bought into a brothel and became a powerful brothel owner Gangubai katia Wadi. Later, she became the first woman in Indian history to openly fight for the rights of sex workers and their children.
Overview of Gangubai Katia Wadi plot;
Ganga Haji Vandas was born in a wealthy family in Katiawa Peninsula and dreamed of becoming a Bollywood actress since childhood. Her boyfriend said that Sheila could let Ganga enter the film industry through menstruation, so they eloped to Mumbai together.
But when he arrived in Mumbai, Ganga found himself sold to a brothel in Kamathipura, the main red light district in India in the 1950s, and Menstrual Sheila was the owner of this brothel.
Ganga begged, resisted and went on a hunger strike, but she couldn't change it. He can only accept his situation. Between life and death, she had to start receiving guests. Thus, Ganga Haji Vandas became Gangubai katia Wadi.
One day after receiving a violent guest, she was badly beaten. So she went to the guest's employer, the local mafia boss Rahim Lala. A few days later, the guest appeared in the brothel again, followed by Racine Lala, and the guest died. Gangupel and Rahim Lala became allies.
After that, Gangubai's position in Kamatipura made a qualitative leap. She became a powerful brothel owner. Gan Gubai also began to gather his power through gangs, and used this increasingly powerful power to improve the living conditions of sex workers and orphans and strive for benefits for sex workers.
Her speech in support of sex workers at the women's empowerment conference made headlines in all local newspapers. Even then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru noticed her and privately discussed the plight of sex workers with her.