Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s web series ‘Hiramandi: The Diamond’, based on the lives of the courtesans of Lahore’s Hiramandi Bazar, has received mixed response from the audience. Where some people have liked this series very much. At the same time, many people are also speaking badly about this series. Doctor Hamad Nawaz of Lahore, Pakistan pointed out the historical errors in this period drama. Now director Vivek Agnihotri has come in support of this Pakistani doctor and has hit hard at Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
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Vivek in support of Pakistani doctor
Vivek Agnihotri praised the Pakistani doctor while sharing his tweet and also questioned Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s series. Vivek Agnihotri has written on them that these are monuments to human injustice, pain and suffering, those who are unaware of them should see Shyam Benegal’s ‘Mandi’.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali was targeted
Not only this, Vivek Agnihotri also questions how human suffering is glamorized in the name of creativity and slum dwellers are shown dressed as if they are going to attend an Ambani wedding. Vivek wrote on it is it okay to portray people attending Ambani’s wedding?
The doctor criticized ‘Hiramandi: The Diamond Bazaar’.
Let us tell you that, criticizing Hiramandi, a Pakistani doctor wrote that there is a lack of research in the show. It shows some things which do not match well with the facts. Dr Hamad Nawaz wrote that either you should not set your story in 1940 Lahore, or if you do, you should not set it in the landscape of Agra, the Urdu of Delhi, the Lucknowi dress and the atmosphere of the 1840s.