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Tikli and Laxmi Bomb

  • 2017
  • 2h 31m
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Tikli and Laxmi Bomb (2017)
Laxmi Malwankar is a sex worker in Mumbai who works on S.V. road and has been part of Mumbai's thriving sex trade for nearly two decades. She's 40, jaded and at some level has a deep seeded loyalty towards Mhatre, the pimp, who takes care of all the girls on that street.

 

Putul, 22, hails from Bangladesh and Mhatre the pimp has brought her to Laxmi to be taught the ropes. Putul, rebellious as she is, is full of questions about how this system works and why all the men in this system of prostitution profess to provide protection but then end up becoming predators themselves from whom then there is no protection.

 

For Laxmi this is how the world works, it is a patriarchy and her only advice to Putul is to quickly adapt to the ways of this world of men.

 

Over time, Putul is able to convince Laxmi that things need changing. Laxmi though still not convinced enough to take it up as her own cause, decides to stand by Putul thanks to a sequence of irrefutable events that occur on the street.

 

Together they get to be known as Tikli and Laxmi Bomb and start off this mini revolution in which they set up a system for women, run by women, in which the final customer is a man but the women run it the way they want and in almost total control.

 

How far are they able to go in this endeavour? How tall is their new organization able to grow before it becomes too big a threat for patriarchy to let it exist? Are they able to make a change that is permanent or another flash in the pan?

 

Does Laxmi, who initially only stands behind Putul's cause, take this up as her own cause soon enough, realizing that women of the world are sisters in what they go through and their power lies in knowing that?

 

Living in what could well be the strata of society that is most oppressed by patriarchy, as it doesn't even officially exist in India, can these girls forge a new path for sex workers in the country? Or do they rise only to finally be overcome by a claustrophobic man's world?
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Two sex workers decide to kick men out of the system and form a cooperative that runs the business for women and by women. How do they do things differently? And how far can they get under a... Read allTwo sex workers decide to kick men out of the system and form a cooperative that runs the business for women and by women. How do they do things differently? And how far can they get under and overarching and overbearing patriarchy?Two sex workers decide to kick men out of the system and form a cooperative that runs the business for women and by women. How do they do things differently? And how far can they get under and overarching and overbearing patriarchy?

  • Director
    • Aditya Kripalani
  • Writer
    • Aditya Kripalani
  • Stars
    • Vibhawari Deshpande
    • Chitrangada Satarupa
    • Suchitra Pillai
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
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    • Director
      • Aditya Kripalani
    • Writer
      • Aditya Kripalani
    • Stars
      • Vibhawari Deshpande
      • Chitrangada Satarupa
      • Suchitra Pillai
    • 73User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Top Cast22

    Vibhawari Deshpande
    Vibhawari Deshpande
    • Laxmi
    Chitrangada Satarupa
    Chitrangada Satarupa
    • Tikli
    • (as Chitrangada Chakraborty)
    Suchitra Pillai
    Suchitra Pillai
    • Manda
    Upendra Limaye
    Upendra Limaye
    • Mhatre
    Kritika Pande
    • Tsamchoe
    Sahaarsh Shuklaa
    Sahaarsh Shuklaa
    • Mangatram Pichauri
    • (as Saharsh Kumar Shukla)
    Mayur More
    Mayur More
    • A.T- Autowala
    Divya Unny
    • Sharanya Nair
    Atroliya Uday
    • Police inspector more
    • (as Uday Atroliya)
    Bidita Bag
    Bidita Bag
    • Sweta
    Manasi Bhawalkar
    • Khairunnisa
    Mia Maelzer
    Mia Maelzer
    • Kala
    Ajay Mahendru
    • Client
    Rakhi Mansha
    • Heera Moti
    Vinod Nair
    • Doctor
    Kiran D Patil
    Kiran D Patil
    • Dilip Deshpande
    Ankur Rastogi
    Kamil Shaikh
    Kamil Shaikh
    • Shinde
    • Director
      • Aditya Kripalani
    • Writer
      • Aditya Kripalani
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      Won the best feature film 2018 at the London Asian Film Festival and Berlin Independent Film Festival.

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    • Release date
      • July 31, 2018 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Language
      • Hindi
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      • 2h 31m(151 min)
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