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Pearls are clutched, bodies alternately defiled and venerated; in one memorable scene, there is a literal ‘pardafaash’. A curtain is pulled to reveal a character swivelling menacingly on a chair, wearing dark glasses and smoking a cigarette, instantly revealing herself to be a double agent of sorts. Heeramandi is filled with unintentionally funny moments like this; moments and scenes straight out of a pulp potboiler that you’d purchase on a railway platform, or a film from the 1980s that you would tut-tut at. But plonked in the year 2024, devoid of any self-awareness or genre thrills — this is exploitation cinema, but Bhansali doesn’t realise it — Heeramandi can’t help but feel archaic. And no single scene captures the show’s outdated sensibilities more accurately than that outrageous one in episode seven.

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