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The Courtesans of Bombay / Street Musician of Bombay [The Merchant Ivory Collection] DVD

NR (Not Rated) :: Home Vision Entertainment (Merchant Ivory) :: Released: 2005-04-19

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The Courtesans of Bombay / Street Musician of Bombay [The Merchant Ivory Collection] Summary Intriguing, colorful, and revealing, The Courtesans of Bombay is Merchant Ivory’s docu-drama about Pavan Pool, the enclosed area where Bombay’s singing and dancing courtesans ply their trade. It presents a portrait of the unique location, both exotic and tawdry: crammed tenements housing 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. Neither sensationalist nor prurient, 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, India’s version of the Japanese geisha.

Courtesans of Bombay DVD Techincal Details Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Kareem Samar, Richard Robbins
Director: Richard Robbins Array
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 125 mins
UPC: 037429194522
Binding: DVD
Studio: Home Vision Entertainment (Merchant Ivory)
Release Date: 2005-04-19
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, Mono, NTSC, Subtitled

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Hindi (Original Language), Punjabi (Original Language), Urdu (Original Language),