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Language. English. The Courtesans of Bombay is a 1983 British docudrama directed by Ismail Merchant. A collaboration by Merchant, James Ivory, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The film focuses on a Bombay compound known as Pavan Pool, where women aspiring to work in the entertainment industry dance for donations from a male audience by day and, it is ...
- Ismail Merchant
- Merchant Ivory Productions
Rotten Tomatoes Podcasts. In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors James Ivory and...
- Drama
- Saeed Jaffrey, Sohra Segal, Kareem Samar
- Ismail Merchant
Mar 19, 1986 · Originally done for British television, this quasi-documentary takes us to Pavanpul, the Bombay tenements where young women sing, dance and perform more private services for male admirers.
- Ismail Merchant
1983/India, 73 minutes. After completing Quartet, Merchant and Ivory returned to India, where they prepared two movies during 1981-82. The more modestly scaled, and the first to be released (in January 1983), was the 73-minute documentary (or "docudrama," as Merchant refers to it) The Courtesans of Bombay, which was both produced and directed ...
Apr 19, 2005 · Amazon.com: The Courtesans of Bombay / Street Musician of Bombay [The Merchant Ivory Collection] : Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal, Kareem Samar, Richard Robbins, Ismail Merchant, Richard Robbins: Movies & TV
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson. The Merchant-Ivory team adopts a semi-documentary stance in Courtesans of Bombay. Though several scenes are dramatized, this film is essentially an unadorned look at prostitution in modern India. The film details the impoverished conditions that would prompt otherwise chaste Indian women to seek out employment as ...
The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) directed by Ismail Merchant • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. 1983 Directed by Ismail Merchant. In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele.
