The Shameless, caste prostitution: from shame to spark?

The Shameless is the result of a long work of reflection on Indian society. In 2014, well before the fiction presented in Cannes in the section Un certain regard, Konstantin Bojanov began to film the story of Devadasi sex workers in the Indian region of Karnataka. Touched by the sorority relationship that Reshma had with his friend Renuka, the Bulgarian-American director decided to use it as a starting point to paint this portrait to the feminin…