Rich Indian women are sold into brothels by their husbands and turned into mafia queens? Life is too legendary!
"Actors? What actor? The man sold you to me for 1,000 rupees. The fat woman looked at the girl with the perfect posture and sneered triumphantly. 16-year-old Ganga sat paralyzed on the ground, and she woke up like a dream, this is Bollywood, which is one of the world's largest red light districts In Kamatipura.
Not long ago, this beautiful girl born into a family of lawyers and from a well-off family made a crazy move for love - eloped with a large amount of money and her father's accountant Ramnick.
Ramnick, 12, of Biganga, said he had an aunt who worked as an actor in Bollywood and helped Ganga, who had dreamed of stardom since childhood, realize his dreams. They can start a happy new life there.
Naïve girls believe it. However, after coming to Mumbai to meet the so-called "aunt", her husband took all the money and disappeared without a trace, and sold her to a brothel in Kamatipura.
Ganga is locked up in a cold little black room, her dreams are broken, her heart is cold, she does not eat, drink, disobey, and stubbornly fights against fate. The fat woman angrily asked her subordinates to inflict violence on Ganga, she was the boss here, and the 1,000 rupees could not be lost.
Until the 8th day, the dying girl gritted her teeth and stood up, her eyes cold as a knife, hard as iron. She figured out that in this inhuman hell, either she would die innocently or become strong enough to fight the demons.
Calmly painting delicate makeup, she sold the virginal body of the girl to the first guest, earning a large amount of prostitution. Since then, the rich family of pure love and ignorance has died, and it is the charming prostitute Gangubai who lives.
With his outstanding temperament, beautiful appearance, and intelligent mind, Gangubai quickly became a popular person in Kamatipura, with a succession of guests.
The fat woman smiled and collected a large amount of silver money, thinking that this girl had finally opened her mind. But he didn't know that Gangubai used the tip of the guest to quietly accumulate money, planning to buy the brothel within 5 years and buy the ugly fat woman.
Because she knows that only by being her own master can she be free and end her humiliation. In the fallen body, the noble soul never yielded.
Suddenly, one day, disaster struck for no reason. A perverted guest came to the brothel, and after brutally violating her despite Gangubai's resistance, he violently beat her to the point where she was scaled, with multiple fractures all over her body, and needles in her stomach and lips.
But this was a brothel, and the fat woman did not dare to call the police. Gangubai couldn't swallow this evil breath. After inquiring from many sources, he learned that the man was a member of the "Patan Gang", one of the three major gangs in Mumbai, so he plucked up enough courage to go to Karim Lara, the boss of the "Patan Gang", to "uphold justice".
Lara begins to dismiss the accusations against an insignificant prostitute, thinking she just wants monetary compensation. Gangubai is not humble and believes that prostitutes are also human beings and have dignity. She revealed the shocking scars and shouted angrily: I don't want money, I just want a fair treatment.
Lara was shocked by her rigidity and admired the woman's courage, and taught the subordinate a harsh lesson in public.
To show his gratitude, Gangubai tied a "protective rope knuckle rakhi" around Lara's wrist. In India, this amulet represents the care, protection and fraternity of women for their brothers.
A small act, the gang leader who was feared by everyone felt a kind of warmth between ordinary people, and immediately recognized Gangubai as his sister. Lara ordered that no one should bother Gankubai in the future, not only giving her a luxury car, but also handing over the "land management" of the red light district of Kamatipura to her.
Overnight, Gangubai turned into the newest "ruler" of the Kamatimpura Red Light District.
Gangubai, who had gained power and wealth, was not left alone, and she could never return to being the clean and pure Ganga.
But thousands of other sex workers in Kamatypura district are exploited and humiliated. Sold, beaten, pregnant, expelled, uneducated, without human dignity, living forever in endless darkness...
Gangubai decided to fight for them for the basic dignity and rights of human beings.
So, the girls who were forced to come here, she could help them get home. For girls who are willing to stay or have to work here, she has set up a more humane system - fixed working hours, rest days, no coercion, no exploitation, no abuse.
At the same time, many children and orphans born unexpectedly in the Red Light District were adopted to fight for their right to education.
Soon Gangubai established a high prestige in the Kamatipura district. Without her instructions, the gang members would not dare to take half a step closer to the red light district.
Once weak and helpless, relying on her own perseverance and strength, she has gradually grown into the "mafia queen" of Mumbai, using gangsters to buy and sell, accumulating a lot of wealth, and working to improve the living conditions of sex workers and orphans.
Gangubai is not a saint or perfect, but she is the deity in the hearts of countless underprivileged women in India who are discriminated against and treated unequally. Her name and portrait have been recorded in the streets for 60 years, and people spontaneously erect monuments to commemorate her.
On February 16 this year, the biographical film of the same name based on Gangubai was released at the Berlin Film Festival, which caused great repercussions.
Just as the line in the movie "Live with dignity and don't be afraid of anything", Gangubai is based on that "not afraid" force that has been refined from a victim of bullying to a "queen" who protects tens of millions of compatriots.
