About this title: 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 "performers"--a euphemism for the World's Oldest Profession, though they do indeed give public dancing and singing performances as a sideline. Indian actress Saeed Jeffrey heads the cast of this Ruth Prawer Jhabvala-scripted "docudrama." Courtesans of Bombay was made for British ...
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Format: DVD
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment (Merchant Ivory)
Date: 2005-04-19
UPC:037429194522
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Date: 04/19/2005
UPC:037429194522
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment (Merch
Date: 04/19/2005
UPC:037429194522
Description: Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal, Kareem Samar, Richard Robbins. New. 1983 Run time: 125. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
UPC:037429194522
Description: Saeed Jaffrey; Zohra Segal; Kareem Samar. New. Run time: 74 mins. Language: English. read more
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