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Shilpa Shetty had a dream of performing a Mujra dance and the dream came true in the Zara Nachke Dikha Season 2, in 2010.

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A neighborhood in the inner Lahore, Pakistan that is associated with music, dancing and sex trades is called Hira Mandi.

There are two argument on the origin of the name of the place. Some believe the area was named after a minister in charge of this district in the late 18the century. The minister, Hira Singh, during the rule of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh, renamed the Shahi Mohalla (the Royal Bazaar) in his name – Hira Mandi.

But, others argue that the the place was a Diamond Market (Hira means diamond in Urdu) during the early 13th century at the time of Sultan Qutbuddin Aybak people used to call the dancing girls ‘diamonds’. Hence, the Shahi Mohalla is called Heera Mandi (the market of diamonds)

There is a very little written records of the area. People have believed it to be a taboo subject and a lot of the details is passed along generations.

A book, Taboo – The Hidden Culture of a Red Light Area, by a Pakistani sociologist, Fouzia Saeed, gives a very good introduction to this area. The writer being a woman, the book is also a woman’s perspective of the Red Light area of Lahore. (more…)

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