 Namaste. If you were to walk into any brothel in Mumbai, you will find in every room a framed photo of a woman, elderly grey head wearing a white saree with a gold border. No, this is not the patron saint of the sex workers. This was Gangubai. Gangubai had been sold into the sex trade at the age of 16 by the man that she thought she was going to marry for the princely sum of 500 rupees. She had been beaten, starved, tortured, but Gangu was not a loser. She had ended up becoming the most powerful madam of her time. So my story today begins in the 1940s, when Gangubai was still just a young 16-year-old living in the village of Kathiwad in Gujarat. He was a very strict man and he was determined that she should be educated, but Gangu's heart was not in her education. She wanted to be an actress. She wanted the bright lights and the fame and the fortune, but fate had had other plans for Gangu.