{"id":48,"date":"2017-06-19T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-01-12T16:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T21:28:50","slug":"48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Allen, Richard and Ira Bhaskar. \u201cPakeezah: Dreamscape of Desire.\u201d Projections, vol. 3, no. 2, 2009, pp. 20-36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes how Kamal Amrohi\u2019s <em>Pakeezah<\/em> distils the idioms of the historical courtesan film, poised as they are between the glorification of courtesan culture and lamenting the debased status of the courtesan; between a nostalgic yearning for the feudal world of the kotha and a utopian desire to escape from it. 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