One of the oldest religious cities in the world, Varanasi in northern India is considered the spiritual capital of India. It is also rife with massive unemployment, corruption, and is a rampant breeding ground for sex trafficking and unspeakable horrors.
A documentary released by Blush Originals in 2016 called “Gudiya”—the Hindu word for “doll”—exposes the dark underbelly of the Varanasi brothels and how young women and girls end up there. Viewed nearly 620,000 times since it was released, the documentary hopes to wake the world up to the torture and injustice that females as young as a few months of age befall when they are abducted or sold, eventually winding up in these notorious red-light districts.
