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In one scene from Mira Nair’s India Cabaret (1985), she asks a taxi driver to show her the Red Light Area. When she asks him how these women are different from others, he says: “The world has made this. The woman who sits in the marketplace is a wh*re, and the woman who stays at home, cares for the family is a good woman. We all have made this, haven’t we?”

There’s something about the way Nair’s camera lingers on these women. They’re not framed as victims, nor as women flaunting their sexuality in a raunchy way. They’re simply women – making choices, fighting the odds, and working with what they have.

Google-search ‘Cabaret dancers in India’ and it throws up results like ‘famous Cabaret dancers’, ‘Cabaret Queens of Bollywood’, ‘top 10 Indian dancers’ and so on. But, India Cabaret tells a different story. We celebrate women ‘girl boss’, when they excel in life – so then why do these women, building a life for themselves, make us feel uncomfortable?

Who gets to decide which woman is ‘good’ and which isn’t?

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