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Hiramandi: After the success of Alia Bhatt's Gangubai Kathiawadi in 2022, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is in the news for his first web series Heeramandi. This web series has been streamed on Netflix from May 1. The series is getting mixed response from the audience. Veteran actors of Bollywood industry are seen together in this web series.
Many actresses including Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha and Aditi Rao Hydari will be seen performing powerfully in the web series. With this series, Fardeen Khan and Adhyayan Suman have also returned to the screen after years. While on one hand this web series is being praised, on the other hand Vivek Agnihotri, who has made films like The Kashmir Files and The Vaccine War, has criticized the web series.
Vivek Agnihotri, who is in the headlines for his statements, has expressed his reaction on the social media platform X regarding the web series. While sharing the post of the Pakistani doctor, he wrote that he has not seen this series but has visited Hiramandi in Lahore many times. Bollywood has a habit of romanticizing tourism and red light areas. Which is sad. Because brothel is not a place of glamor and beauty. It is a monument to human injustice, suffering and struggle. Those who don't know this should watch Shyam Benegal's 'Mandi'. Is it right to make a film that glorifies the lives of people living in slums? Is it appropriate to show the people living there dressed like this?
What did the Pakistani doctor say?
Regarding Heeramandi web series, Pakistani doctor Hamd Nawaz has criticized Sanjay Leela Bhansali's web series Heeramandi. While sharing a photo, he wrote, Watched Hiramandi web series and found everything except Hiramandi… Do not set your story in 1940 Lahore… And if you do set it, then instead of Agra, set it in Delhi's Urdu, Lucknow. Don't get set. The atmosphere of 1840. This cannot be accepted as a Lahori..