Bombay Begums takes an unsparing look at the predicament of working women

There are few good guys but plenty of resilient women in Bombay Begums, the Netflix series launched on March 8. As an unsparing look at the predicament of the professional Indian woman, it was one of the better ways to mark Women’s Day instead of the mawkish paeans to “women’s empowerment”.  

The series’ six episodes tell the overlapping stories of four professional women – three bankers at various stage of their careers and a sex worker. Created and directed by Alankrita Shrivastava of the hugely enjoyable Lipstick Under My Burkha fame, Bombay Begums could almost be a continuum of that