Director: Ismail Merchant; Writer: Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Producer: Wahid Chowhan, Ismail Merchant, Kareem Samar; Cinematographer: Vishnu Mathur; Editor: Amit Bose, Rita Stern; Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Sehgal, Kareem Samar
Duration: 01:13:27; Aspect Ratio: 1.310:1; Hue: 29.265; Saturation: 0.085; Lightness: 0.318; Volume: 0.206; Cuts per Minute: 10.510; Words per Minute: 47.745
Summary: British "docudrama" scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Roughly structured over 24 hours, it focuses on a Bombay compound known as Pavan Pool, where women aspiring to work in the entertainment industry sing and dance for donations from a male audience by day, and, it is broadly suggested although never specifically stated, work as prostitutes by night.
Our guides are the compound's rent collector, an older woman who grew up there, and a bit-part actor who spends his earnings there.
Courtesans of Bombay was made for British television, and telecast in those late hours ostensibly off limits to younger viewers. It was broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK in January 1983 and went into limited theatrical release in the United States on 19 March 1986.
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