Set in Calcutta's red-light district, where 10-year-old girls worry about being sold by their fathers, the film might have gone for the water works.

Intervention in the lives of India's most deprived class of kids is the focus of "Born Into Brothels," an engaging docu about a British photographer who endeavors to help the children of Calcutta ...

Born into Brothels, a new documentary film, tells the story of children growing up in poverty in Calcutta's red-light district who find hope in a newfound skill -- photography. NPR's Melissa Block ...

That world is the red-light district of Calcutta, where generations of women have "worked the line," facing a future without hope. The film is about the youngest dwellers in that world, a group of ...

Though Mumbai, too, has a red-light district in Kamathipura, Sonagachhi was chosen as it is India’s biggest. “The idea was conceptualised in 2009. I have interacted with the women there. They are ...