ace three rummyHeeramandi is a semi-historical drama set in pre-Independence Lahore; it follows the lives of a group of courtesans and noblemen, who find their personal conflicts colliding with the freedom struggle. In the featurette, Bhansali described putting the show together as ‘making three big-sized, four big-sized films.’ The idea for Heeramandi, he said, never left his mind for nearly two decades. “After every film, Heeramandi would come out. But I would say, it’s too vast, it’s too epic to be made into a two-hour film. Finally, the time came and we said, let’s make it into a series, because that will do justice to the vastness of it,” he said. Bhansali oversaw the creation of the biggest set that he has ever worked in, sprawled across three acres.But this year, the trends have been different. Travelling was halted in the country in the first half of the year. And now, the pandemic — which has mostly shut international corridors, barring a few — is making people tread with caution and undertake smaller journeys.Hosted by “The Sea is Ours” cafe, the screenings were designed to promote issues of culture and history approved by the conservative Islamist Hamas government.