Alia Bhatt
Alia Bhatt played the role of a sex worker in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi. She impressed the audience with her stellar performance and her dialect blending into the character. The film is a biographical drama based on the real life of Gangubai who is duped and sold to a brothel at a young age. However, she takes the control of that world and rules it. The film happened to be a blockbuster hit becoming one of the highest-grossing films.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Kareena Kapoor Khan has played the role of a sex worker twice. First, she played in the 2003 film Chameli and then in Talaash.
Rani Mukerji
Rani Mukerji took up the role of a sex worker twice. She became a prostitute in Saawariya and Laaga Chunari Mein Daag.
Preity Zinta
In Salman Khan and Rani Mukerji starrer Chori Chori Chupke Chukpe Preity Zinta plays the role of a sex worker.
Tabu
Tabu plays a prostitute in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Chandani Bar. She chooses sex work as a career after her parents are killed in a riot.
Kalki Koechlin
In Anurag Kasshyap’s Dev D, Kalki Koechlin played the character of a prostitute, who works as a sex worker in the night and is a college student during the day.
Huma Qureshi
Huma Qureshi played the role of Jhmili in Badlapur. Her character helps Varun Dhawan reach the murderer of his wife.
Kangana Ranaut
In the 2013 film Rajjo, Kangana Ranaut played a seasoned sex worker. It is a love story of a nautch girl in the most extraordinary circumstances.
Manisha Koirala
Manisha Koirala plays a sex worker in the 2003 film Market. She is sold in the market by her Arab husband.
Neha Dhupia
In the 2004 film Julie, Neha Dhupia becomes a sex worker after being left heartbroken.
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