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Heeramandi, created by Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Netflix, is a classic tale of the ‘tawaifs’ who used to live in Lahore during the pre-independence era. A story that starts around the individual lives of Tawaifs ends as a story of freedom struggle. It’s all about 1920 Lahore Tawaifs who were courtesan high class sex workers and dancers. Then about Nawabs …