Synopsis
Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022) is a biographical crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali brings together Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn in a 157-minute Indian production based on Hussain Zaidi's book Mafia Queens of Mumbai.
The film follows a real woman: a young girl tricked into being sold to a brothel in Mumbai's Kamathipura district during the 1960s. Rather than disappear into the life forced on her, she builds connections with the city's criminal networks, takes her case all the way to Nehru, and turns herself into a political voice for the district's most marginalised residents.
Bhansali frames the whole thing with the visual scale he brought to Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat — sweeping compositions, dense colour, theatrical staging — and Alia Bhatt's performance holds the centre without flinching. The film is at its best when it refuses to make Gangubai a saint. Stream Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022) online on iFILM.
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