Kamla (film)

Jaisingh Jadav (Marc Zuber), a Delhi-based journalist finds that even to this date, the flesh trade exists in a village in Madhya Pradesh, the victims being girls belonging to the Bhil tribe. Like any avid journalist, he travels to the village, followed by really buying a girl named Kamla (Deepti Naval) and takes her to his home in Delhi. As his intentions are good, some days later he holds a press conference where he reveals the actual wrongdoings going on in the village.^[2]

• Deepti Naval as Kamla
• Shabana Azmi as Sarita Jadhav
• Marc Zuber as Jaisingh Jadhav
• A.K. Hangal as Kakasaab (Sarita's uncle)
• Sulabha Deshpande
• Tun Tun

1. "Aaj Phir Aaine Se" - Salma Agha
2. "Insaano Ko Neelam Kare Duniya" - Pankaj Udhas
3. "Kaisa Yeh Karam" - Pankaj Udhas

Upon its release, Kamla received rave reviews. The Times of India in a review stated, "Deepti Naval is called to widen her eyes, tremble like a scared rabbit and drop pearly smiles. To her credit, she performs these chores competently." The Indian Express wrote, "Mundhara is to be complimented on getting two credible – perhaps notable – performances from Deepti Naval and Marc Zuber – whose talents have so far been pretty well concealed."^[3]

The movie is based on Tendulkar's play, which in turn is inspired by a real life expose by the journalist Ashwini Sarin, of The Indian Express. In the expose he actually bought a girl from the rural flesh market, from a village of Dholpur, Rajsthan, for an amount of Rs20000. He presented the woman at a press conference.

• Kamla at IMDb