It is one of Mumbai's most infamous areas. Kamathipura, the city's oldest red-light district, is now the setting for a new superhero story. Chunri, The Dancing Death, written by Baber Khan and illustrated by M Basit Ansari, both from Pakistan, is the story of a young girl, Chunri, born into prostitution, who uses Bruce Lee films to rebel.

Khan was inspired to write the story after seeing Sandra Hoyn's photographs of the Kandapara brothel in the Bangladeshi district of Tangali, and subsequent readings of stories about prostitution, which included Kamathipura. “Whenever I heard or asked sex workers about what brought them into this trade, the answers were that since they aren't educated, they can't make a decent earning and this helps them earn well. One day, a prostitute in Lahore told me that her mother was paid to bring her into this world,” he says.