Heeramandi

HEERAMANDI is the story of the lives of courtesans. The year is 1945. In Lahore, the best courtesans reside in an area named Heeramandi. The biggest residence of these nautch girls is Shahi Mahal, run by Mallikajaan (Manisha Koirala). She stays here with her daughters Bibbo (Aditi Rao Hydari) and…&nbspAlamzeb (Sharmin Segal Mehta), sister Waheeda (Sanjeeda Sheikh), Waheeda’s daughter Shama (Pratibha Ranta) and helpers Saima (Shruti Sharma), Phatto (Jayati Bhatia) and Satto (Nivedita Bhargava). While Mallikajaan is in a relationship with Nawab Zulfikar (Shekhar Suman), Bibbo and Nawab Wali Mohammed (Fardeen Khan) are a couple. Mallikajaan wishes Alamzeb to make her debut dance performance in front of their elite audience. But Alamzeb doesn’t want to be a ‘tawaif’; instead, she desires to be a poet. Mallikajaan doesn’t approve of it. One day, Alamzeb bumps into Tajdar Baloch (Taha Shah), Oxford-return son of a Nawab, Ashfaq Baloch (Ujjwal Chopra), and sparks fly between them. The ‘tawaifs’ are forbidden to fall in love but Alamzeb takes the plunge. Meanwhile, Mallikajaan gets the shock of her life as Fardeedan (Sonakshi Sinha), daughter of the former’s sister Rehana, returns from nowhere and buys the mansion opposite Shahi Mahal. She’s in Heeramandi to destroy Mallikajaan and to settle past dues. She decides to use Alamzeb and her love for Tajdar to her advantage. What happens next forms the rest of the series.

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