"Shakti, sampati, samridi, tino hi aurte h too inn mardo ko kis baat ka guroor h." :- GANGUBAI HARJIVANDAS
'GANGUBAI KATHIAWADI' , the story of a prostitute who fights for the rights of sex workers after facing a lot of problems in her life. This movie is based on women empowerment in which the atrocities against women are depicted very well. 'GANGUBAI KATHIAWADI' , fabricated under the direction of a top-notch director Sanjay Leela Bhansali which has been streaming in the cinemas since 25 february,2022. The role of Gangubai, main cast of film, is played by a multiskilled bollywood actress Alia Bhatt.
This script is taken from the book 'Mafia Queens of Mumbai' which was written by Hussain Zaidi. It is the tale of a girl 'Ganga' to whom her lover Ramnik Lal (role played by Varun Kumar) sold her to red light area called Kamathipura for few bucks. And from that time her journey started in the shackles of the patriarchal society. Then how did she fought for her oppressiveness, how did she put her love Afsana(role played by Shantanu Mahaeshwari) at stake to win the presidental election of Kamathipura, and after the victory in election she goes to Prime Minister for the legal rights of all prostitute and to allow their children to go to school. Amit Feji(role played by Jim Sarabh), an editor of Urdu Times, casted an important role in her fight. Karim Lala's acting (role played by Ajay Devgan), charged the movie with infusion and his role prove that there are some people in this world who stands for the security and dignity of women.
This movie makes aware of some culprits who sell their daughters and sisters for few bucks to sex traffickers or pimps and make their lives worst than hell. In today’s era also, the woman is treated as an object to complete sexual desires only and it is called sexual objectification. In this movie we get to know another truth that male caste who go to red light area for satisfying their hunger of lust, later, same male caste come forward in protest to ban all these red lights areas and to take the bread out of mouth from these poor women. Gangubai said about the dignity of prostitutes, "aapse jyada izzat h humare pass pucho kese, aapki izzat ek baar gyi to gyi hum to roj raat ko izzat bechti h sali khatam hich nhi hoti". It is a bitter truth of our society that because of these red light areas the dignity of our girls is safe from the lust of men otherwise the picture of rate of rapes and sexual harrasment is on peak. In my opinion, these women should also get honor, right and legal laws in the country.
In this movie, Alia Bhatt acted all the dispositions of Gangubai in a very realistic way and comes exactly in the role of her and depicted the harsh reality of our society. This movie is very important for our society and it should be seen by everyone who thinks wrong about these sex workers and does not consider them as a part of society. We have to learn from this movie that we should not use girls for sex rather than care them with some love, affection and honor. Then the image of our society will be very different.