Intriguing colourful and revealing The Courtesans Of Bombay is Merchant Ivory's 'docu-drama' about Pavan Pool the enclosed area where that city's courtesans ply their trade. It presents a portrait of a unique location both exotic and tawdry: crammed tenements housing thousands men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing dancing and by inference seduction. Yet The Courtesans Of Bombay is neither sensationalist... nor prurient and is as much about a tradition with a special place in Indian society. [show more]
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