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2005., General, Home Vision Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Courtesans Edition: Full screen version. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Merchant Ivory collectionSummary Note: Pavan Pool is an enclosed area of Bombay where the city's singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. Crammed tenements house thousands of men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves, who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing, dancing, and by inference, seduction. The film is about a tradition with a special place in Indian society: the entertainment of paying customers - always men - by songstresses and dancers who perform in the classical Hindustani styles of the ancient "nautch" girls.
![The courtesans of Bombay [DVD] (1983) Directed by Ismail Merchant](/Library/images/~imageCT75399.JPG "The courtesans of Bombay [DVD] (1983) Directed by Ismail Merchant")