Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has given us some heart wrenching movies like Black, Guzaarish, Padmaavat etc. The director is now all set to make his debut digitally with the upcoming web series titled Heeramandi. As per sources, the filmmaker has composed 20-35 songs for it and the series is said to feature about 16-20 songs, out of which 3 will be semi-classical. Although, the series will be catering more to the younger modern generation rather than people of the Umrao Jaan or Pakeezah era. 

Heeramandi will be set with the backdrop of brothels and highlight the kotha culture. It will have a lot of singing and dancing. SLB this time is ensuring that the series will have a happy ending. It will also portray tawaifs as blissful souls and not dark and disturbed as the filmmaker usually prefers to show. Heeramandi will star Sonakshi Sinha, Huma Qureshi and Manisha Koirala, among others. It will stream soon on Netflix.