Bollywood

What Was The Relationship Between Gangubai Kathiawadi & Nehru; Why Did Nehru Put Gajra In Her Hair?

By Gunjan Chaudhary

February 16, 2022

These days the audience is eagerly waiting for the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Alia Bhatt starrer film Gangubai Kathiawadi. The trailer of the film came on the previous day and it was well-liked by the people and got a nice reaction from them. For your information, let us tell you that this story is based on the book ‘Mafi ya Queen of Mumbai’ by S Hussain Zaidi.

Gangubai Kathiawadi

Gangubai’s influence was not only up to the underworld and gangsters, but the big politicians were also influenced by her. Gangubai gave such a speech in favor of prostitutes in the Women Empowerment Summit which came in the headlines after it was conducted5. Gradually, the discussions of Gangubai reached to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also, who was the Prime Minister at that time.

Alia Bhatt

After this, gearing up was done to improve the condition of the red light areas in the country. In a summit of women empowerment, Gangubai gave such an empowered and beautiful speech, whose echo reached the Prime Minister of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru. According to the report, when the discussion of Gangubai’s speech reached Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru, Gangubai once got a chance to meet Jawaharlal Nehru. She asked Nehru to raise the issue of improving the condition of sex workers at the national level through his speeches and Gangubai urged him to do something so that the women of the sex industry get equal rights as other people of this society gets and lead a dignified life.