Bollywood from time to time gives us glimpses of what real film making is and Gangubai is one such glimpse. Set in the backdrop of 1960s Mumbai, its a story of fragile lover and an aspiring actor who is sold into a brothel at Kamathipura, Mumbai. The cheated lover and disgraced young girl soon realises his potential to rise and with will to do something good for her fellow ladies, she rises from a sex worker to a madam and to reformer.
Alia Bhatt has nailed the role and SLB's direction has once again made cinema lively.