Pallavi Joshi in earlier years: Indian film - television actress, on the pimps and madams of Bombay, in Mumbai

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Pallavi Joshi, Indian film and television actress, at the American Express Superstar Challenge - an AIDS awareness camp. She enjoyed playing sports and letting herself loose at the event. She had a lot of fun for a worthy cause, she said. She found it socially relevant. She mentions Shabana Azmi's speech about the prostitutes and red light areas of Mumbai - the madams and the pimps, and their customers not wanting to use condoms. She is a recipient of Special Jury Award at the National Film Awards. Pallavi started performing on stage at an early age. She acted in films like Badla and Aadmi Sadak Ka as a child artiste. She played a blind child who reforms a notorious gangster in Dada (1979). This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the larg