| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (63 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
"Riya dances in the beer bars of Mumbai to make a living. The documentary follows her from her home in Delhi to Mumbai where hundreds of working class girls come in search of work and a future. Riya's future is unpredictable and the present is marked with its own difficulties. The police harass her family in Delhi, there is constant pressure from her agent in Mumbai to attract more tips ands the work itself is demanding. However, there are other girls to have fun with, there is money to dress well and then there are men... admirers promising the moon. The documentary is an intimate portrait of the everyday in the life of the girls, their agents and their neighbourhoods. Delhi-Mumbai-Delhi, shot in the backdrop of the Maharashtra Governments' controversial move to ban girls from dancing in beer bars, interweaves stories of gender, labour, sexuality and popular culture within an increasingly globalized economy." -- Website |
| Credits |
Director: Saba Dewan, Producer: Rahyl Roy, Camera: Rahul Roy |
| Notes |
DVD. Region unspecified |
| Subject |
Women -- India.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86007592
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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| Author |
Dewan, Saba, 1963-
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Rahul, Roy
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