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The Sad Truth about Gangubai Harjivandas' Life in the Film

The film is totally based on the life of Gangubai Harjivandas, popularly known as Gangubai Kothewali, whose life was chronicled in the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai written by S. Hussain Zaidi.

CAST: Alia Bhatt, Ajay Devgn, Shantanu Maheshwari, Vijay Raaz, Seema                             Pahwa, Jim Sarbh

DIRECTION: Sanjay Leela Bhansali

GENRE: Drama

DURATION: 2 hours 36 minutes

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Ganga Harjivandas (Alia Bhatt) belongs to a family of lawyers. Like every other teenager growing up in small-town India in the ’50s, she’s in love with Dev Anand and wants to run away to Mumbai to become a Hindi film heroine. She elopes with her lover Ramniklal (Varun Kapoor) with plenty of jewellery and money but he isn’t what he seems. He sells her off to a brothel for a thousand rupees and runs away. Ganga is forced by brothel owner Sheela Bai (Seema Pahwa) to take to the life of a prostitute. Ganga accepts her reality but can’t see herself as a victim. She vows to oust Sheela Bai soon and take over the whole of Kamathipura one day. And she manages to do it with the help of mafia don Rahim Lala (Ajay Devgan), who accepts her as his sister and stands behind her in every difficulty. She falls in love with her tailor’s nephew Afsaan (Shantanu Maheshwari) but is practical enough to know that marriage is out of the question. She’s shown to be a kind-hearted madame, who thinks that the sex trade should be made legal as it fulfils a need of society. She champions the cause of education, housing and other rights for prostitutes and their children. A journalist (Jim Sarbh), champions her cause in the press and advises her that she should use her clout to achieve political power. How she either charms or cajoles her ways out of difficulties forms the crux of the film.

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Like all Bhansali products, Gangubai Kathiawadi too is a visual treat. The director has successfully recreated the Bombay of the ’50s and ’60s. Kudos to his production design and VFX team for that. The film is an ode of sorts to Guru Dutt and Sahir Ludhianvi. There’s a tender scene where Gangubai lays her head in the lap of her lover, much like the famous scene from Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), where Meena Kumari, playing the much-neglected choti bahu, tries to find some sort of solace in Bhoothnath’s (Guru Dutt) embrace. Gangu is fond of reading Sahir and quotes the opening lines of the song Jine naaz hai Hind par woh kahan hai, which Sahir wrote for Pyaasa (1957), while appealing to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to do something for the upliftment of prostitutes. Kudos also to his dialogue writers for writing some pithy, pathos-filled lines. For example, Sheela Bai admonishes her girls for spending too much time on makeup – “Grahak ko tumhara chehra nahi chamdi chahiye.” Another time, she wakes up Gangu at 4 am saying, “Iss dhande ka koi time nahi hota.” Gangubai’s speech near the end is a fiery thunderbolt. “Hamari izzat roz lutti hai par khatam hi nahi hoti,” says she. Where Bhansali and his writers have excelled is in humanising Gangubai. Her friendship with Kamli (Indira Tiwari) is a tender example of the fact that kinship can flourish even under the most inhuman circumstances. There’s a scene where Gangu is writing a letter for one of her colleagues and turn by turn, the pain of being separated from their loved ones is reflected in every girl’s expressions. Her affair with Afsaan is the most poetic portion of the film. It’s played out through their eyes, through glimpses, body language and expressions.

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Alia Bhatt owns the film from the first frame. It’s as if she was born for the role. The scene where she romances Afsaan in the car, conveying a wealth of emotions without saying anything is so natural and fluid you forget you’re watching a film. In the song Dholida, she dances like a dervish, losing herself in her character to such an extent that the lines blur between the reel and real. She spouts every heavy-duty line concocted by the writers with supreme confidence and shows her mettle in her joint scenes with actors of fine calibres, such as Ajay Devgan, Seema Pahwa, Vijay Raaz and Jim Sarbh. But it’s in the scenes where she uses silence and body language to convey Gangubai’s pain and anguish that Alia shines the most. Her bond with the audience becomes so strong that there’s no need for words to communicate what her character is going through.

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Debutant Shantanu Maheshwari excels in his brief role. And so does the ever-dependable Ajay Devgn in his extended cameo. He has played mafia dons in so many films and yet manages to produce something new with every outing. One wishes there was more of Seema Pahwa, Vijay Raaz and Jim Sarbh in the film, who all shine in their respective roles. Indira Tiwary too is in fine fettle as Kamli.

There must be more to Gangubai’s life than what Bhansali has portrayed here. She’s being deified in the film but one certainly expected to see more, given the fact that she was one of the leading figures of Mumbai’s mafia. But niggles aside, SLB has again given us a film which keeps us glued to our seats for close to three hours. In today’s OTT riddled world where the attention span of the viewer doesn’t exceed 15 minutes.