Originally known as , Kamathipura was initially a residential settlement built on reclaimed marshland around 200 years ago for low-caste Telugu construction workers brought in from the erstwhile Hyderabad state. In the 1880s, the colonial police designated Kamathipura as a zone that would tolerate European commercial sex workers, marking a formal starting point for systematic prostitution in the area. Today, the neighborhood is divided into a grid of 15 lanes, encompassing 943 cessed buildings, 349 non-cessed buildings, 14 religious places, and two municipal schools. It is home not only to sex workers but also to thousands of families and diverse small-scale industries, including scrap markets, jeans-dyeing units, zardozi units, and leather manufacturing operations.
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Historically, Bollywood relegated the sex workers of Mumbai to peripheral characters. They were often depicted as tragic figures needing rescue or as glamorous, melancholic courtesans performing tawaif -style dance numbers. Characters were rarely given a backstory beyond financial desperation or betrayal by a lover. It is home not only to sex workers
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