CNN.com did a piece on Pakistan's Heera Mundi recently that focuses on Artist Iqbal Hussain, whose paintings featured sex workers. It is a fascinating, short piece that you should read but won't so I am embedding the video here. Hussain's point of view is an interesting one as he grew up in the shadows of the Heera Mandi (his mother was a prostitute who died last month at 98, so I guess she showed chlamydia what's what).
It does however ruin any Madhuri in Devdas fantasies you pervs may have had. It seems it's not all item numbers in designer corsets but more like venereal diseases and lots of empty meaningless interactions. I think Saroj Khan and Sanjay Leela Bansali owe us all an apology as well as a refund for the one way ticket to Lahore in the middle of peak season one may or may not have purchased after watching the Ishq Kameena video on youtube last week. Uncle Amresh Puri sat through approximately 1700 Mujrah scenes in his career but never did we hear the phrase "hot, sweaty rat-infested rooms". This is disappointing. Dammit desi prostitutes, why do you insist on not fitting in my box of uninformed delusions.
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