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Int’l Critics Line: Alia Bhatt In ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’

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“Save your over-acting for the movies,” Ganga’s boyfriend Ramnik (Varun Kapoor) advises her, as she gasps with exaggerated joy at the train ticket to Mumbai — home of Bollywood, the world’s biggest film industry — he holds up to her in Gangubai Kathiawadi.

It’s a knowingly self-aware joke. Popular as they are, Bollywood films are often lampooned for their frequently coarse acting, along with their melodramatic subjects, corny romance, absurd pantomime villains and the fact that even the most tragic scene may turn on a dime into a massive dance number.

Unless you grew up with them, the Bollywood approach to giving bang for every buck can be hard to swallow.Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s epic tale of Gangubai, the true story of a girl from an affluent family sold into prostitution who became a so-called “mafia queen” of Mumbai, ticks all those boxes.

The brothel madams are maniacally evil, beating their girls and punishing rebels by abandoning them to the most sadistic clients.

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