Beautiful Thing

Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met Leela, a beautiful and charismatic bar dancer with a story to tell. Leela introduced Sonia to the underworld of Bombay''s dance bars: a world of glamorous women, of fierce love, sex and violence, of customers and gangsters, of police, prostitutes and pimps.

When an ambitious political politician cashed in on a tide of false morality and had Bombay''s dance bars wiped out, Leela''s proud independence faced its greatest test. In a city where almost everyone is certain that someone, somewhere, is worse off than them, she fights to survive, and to win.

Beautiful Thing is a vivid and intimate portrait of one reporter''s journey into the dark, pulsating and ultimately damaged soul of Bombay.