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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Seema Bhargava

Seema Bhargava appears in Gangubai Kathiawadi, the film adaptation of the book by S. Hussain Zaidi, Jane Borges Mafia Queens Of Mumbai, first published in 2011.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Gangubai Kathiawadi. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2011 book, Mafia Queens Of Mumbai
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Mafia Queens Of Mumbai
S. Hussain Zaidi, Jane Borges, 2011
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Gangubai Kathiawadi
Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2022

Born into an affluent family in Kathiawad, Ganga Harjivandas aspired to become a Bollywood actress. At the tender age of 16, she fell in love with Ramnik Lal who was her father’s accountant. They eloped to Mumbai and got married. But, her whole life turned upside down as he sold her to a brothel in Kamathipura where she forcefully had to start prostitution. Later, she became a powerful brothel madame and won elections of the area where she lived.