Beautiful Thing: Inside The Secret World Of Bombay's Dance Bars - Plot & Excerpts
Apsara was never invited along and had she been she would have resisted: Leela’s mother was enjoying her freedom by exerting herself as little as possible. She left Leela’s bed only for BC—Bhagwan, Bathroom, Cooking and Customer. So Leela would dial in for Chinese ‘wedge fry’ and noodles and, arranging the tin foil cartons on her mother’s lap, say to her sternly, ‘This time, mummy, don’t call if you get lonely. I’ll talk to you when I come home, understand? And I’ll come home when I’m ready.’That Saturday was a special one; the girls had been invited to a birthday party. The evening’s hosts, one of whom was a brothel madam called Gazala and the other, Leela’s close friend Masti Muskaan, were known for their flamboyance and generosity, and the girls expected a blowout.Masti was a hijra—a feminine soul in a masculine body, a member of an ancient and secretive community described as the ‘third sex’. But she was different from any hijra Leela had known. She was petite and pale and favoured ‘western’ clothes like dresses, skirts and high heels.
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