6/28/2023 0 Comments Beautiful thing book sonia faleiro![]() Leela was punished by her father for being a “disobedient child” for refusing to star in child-porn clips, and was thus sold to a police officer. At the age of 13, she escaped from her house to Bombay in the hope of having a successful career. ![]() Faleiro demonstrates the inherent contradictions of this setup in her book that brilliantly reflects the thoughts, dreams and aspirations of Bombay’s bar dancers.īeautiful Thing revolves around the life of Leela, the highest-paid bar dancer of a seedy Mumbai bar. However, related activities like setting up of a brothel, pimping and soliciting sex is. As we know, legally, sex work is not illegal in India. ![]() ![]() Title: Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars.īeautiful Thing, by Sonia Faleiro, demonstrates through the story of Leela, a bar dancer in Bombay, how the bar dancing and sex work industry of Bombay thrives and sustains itself. ![]()
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