Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s long-awaited streaming debut, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazar, was released on May 1 to mixed response. The Netflix series, however, is now getting traction for something it would have hoped to avoid: inauthenticity. Set in a prominent red-light district of undivided India, the project, created and directed by Bhansali, follows the lives of courtesans and nawabs.