The Shameless

The Shameless (2025)

निर्लज्ज

In the dead of night, Renuka escapes from a Delhi brothel after stabbing a policeman to death. She takes refuge in a community of sex workers in northern India, where she meets Devika, a young girl condemned to a life of prostitution. Their bond develops into a forbidden romance. Together, they embark on a perilous journey to escape the law and forge their path to freedom.

Date of release
2025-05-14
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Konstantin Bojanov

Casting

Interesting facts

The Shameless is a 2024 Hindi-language romantic crime drama film directed and written by Konstantin Bojanov. It premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

Bojanov acquired the film rights to William Dalrymple's Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India. Bojanov planned on making a documentary based on four stories in the book. Bojanov toured India and started filming in Karnataka in 2014. He planned on using the footage to obtain financing for a feature-length documentary.

Bojanov transformed the project away from being a documentary due to the difficulty of making a film in three languages and that it would be "impossible unless I moved to India". He considered making an animated film due to difficulties obtaining financial support. He later abandoned that idea, but met Anasuya Sengupta, a character visualizer and production designer, and cast her to play the lead role.

Frederic Corvez and Maeva Savinien obtained $868,000 in financing for the film from Klas Film, House on Fire, and Akka Films. Additional financing was obtained from The Production Headquarters. The film was shot in Kathmandu, Nepal, as filming in India cost more after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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