While prostitution was not legalized, Kamathipura celebrates its continued existence thanks to Gangubai Kathiawadi. He also agrees to block the brothel and Kamathipura from being vacated. After discussion, the Prime Minister eventually agrees to set up a committee on the matter. Gangubai asks the Prime Minister to legalize prostitution, but he refuses. Gangubai prepares a trip to New Delhi to meet with the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The politician asks for her votes and informs her that the school which wants her brothel vacated has submitted a petition to the Supreme Court. Faizi and a local politician in her brothel. Plus, she says that she will fight for prostitutes' children to receive an education and for prostitutes to be given respect in society.Īfter her speech goes viral, Gangubai receives Mr. Instead, she asks the audience why prostitutes are the target of discrimination when they do not discriminate when providing services. Faizi prepares a speech on education for prostitutes for Gangubai to read at a rally, but she does not follow the script.
At the same time, Kamli suffers an intense illness after giving birth and dies. However, the children are hit and thrown out of the school on their first day. The girls are enrolled in front of the journalist, Mr. There, she offers five years' fees for all 8 girls and states that children from a brothel deserve an education. Gangubai walks into a meeting with a journalist and school principal with the children of the brothel. Rahim Lala rejects the secretary's deal and warns Gangubai to prepare to be sued and brought to court. The secretary wishes to build skyscrapers in the neighbourhood with the support of a school which accuses Kamathipura of being a site of immorality. Later, Gangubai finds out that a Ward secretary intends for everyone in Kamathipura to be vacated during a meeting with Rahim Lala. While in office, Gangubai calls her family for the first time in 12 years and finds out that her father has died and her mother has not forgiven her for running away. In this new role, she advocates for women's rights. She runs in the Kamathipura presidential elections against Razia and wins after showing movies during Razia's speech to draw people away. But she gets him married to Roshni, daughter of a fellow prostitute Kusum to save Roshni from prostitution as she can't marry Afsaan due to her being a sex worker. Gangubai later falls in love with a young tailor, Afsaan Razzaq who also loves her. Gangu becomes the madame of her brothel after Sheela Masi dies, renames herself Gangubai, and goes on to become a powerful political figure.Īfter listening to Madhu, she frees her from the brothel and sends her home safely. She goes to mafia leader Rahim Lala for justice, and he becomes her sworn brother after he hears her plea. A man named Shaukat Abbas Khan visits the brothel and attacks Gangu. While there, she befriends a woman named Kamli. But her whole life turns upside down as he sells her to a brothel owned by Sheela Masi in Kamathipura for Rs 1000 where she forcefully had to start prostitution. At the tender age of 16, she eloped with her boyfriend Ramnik Lal to Mumbai as Ramnik promised Ganga a film career under the tutelage of his aunt Sheela. Gangubai meets Madhu and tells her own story to her.īorn into an affluent family in Kathiawad, Ganga Jagjivandas Kathiawadi, daughter of a barrister aspired to become a Bollywood actress. Later, she is suggested to ask Gangubai to persuade Madhu.
She refuses to become a prostitute, so she is tortured by brothel madame Rashmibai. ( March 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī young girl named Madhu is forced into prostitution against her will. You can provide one by editing this article. This section needs an improved plot summary.