Kamathipura

Watch: In Gangubai Kathiawadi trailer, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Alia Bhatt make dark look desirable

In Gangubai Kathiawadi trailer, Alia Bhatt strides across the lavish frames like a lioness and roars against her enemies with a chilling restraint

Disney+ Hotstar postpones Kamathipura series to adhere to new OTT guidelines

Kamathipura's star Meera Chopra revealed the news saying, "As a team we don't want to hurt anybody's sentiments."

Disney+ Hotstar series Kamathipura, starring Meera Chopra and Tanuj Virwani, to release on 8 March

Set in and around Mumbai's red-light area, Kamathipura chronicles a woman police officer's pursuit to unearth a mystery around a serial killer.

Teaser of Alia Bhatt's Gangubai Kathiawadi unveiled; Sanjay Leela Bhansali film to release on 30 July

Gangubai Kathiawadi, which is Bhansali's tenth directorial venture, is adapted from one of the chapters of author Hussain Zaidi’s book, Mafia Queens of Mumbai.

No income, no food, no government relief: Sex workers of Kamathipura pushed to the brink

Sex workers in Kamathipura are desperate to get back to work despite the risks due to COVID-19, purely to end the vicious cycle of hunger and violence

Ardhe Akash Maathyavar: Anthology of Marathi poetry turns an empathetic gaze on life on the fringes

Dr Shridhar Pawar's experiences in the by-lanes of Kamathipura — with sex workers, impoverished families, queer groups, migrant populations — inform his poetry in Ardhe Akash Maathyavar.

Morari Bapu draws flak for inviting 200 Mumbai sex workers to Ayodhya; Hindu leaders say temple town made impious

Sex workers from Kamathipura, the red light area of Mumbai, were personally invited by Morari Bapu for the religious discourse. Hindu religious leaders have raised objections over the gathering of sex workers in the "pious town of Ayodhya".

Mother's Day in Kamathipura: Women here want their children to be protected from the flesh trade

The mothers of Kamathipura want to see their children lead healthy and safe lives away from the red light district

In Kamathipura's lanes, legalisation of prostitution seems like a faraway debate

The narrow lanes of Kamathipura, Mumbai's red light district, seem a long distance away from the debate on legalisation of prostitution raging elsewhere

Five killed, three injured in Mumbai building collapse; several trapped

A three-storey building in Mumbai collapsed on Saturday afternoon, killing two persons and trapping many others, civic officials said