Gangubai Kothewali, was the boss lady of a brothel in Kamathipura. The movie ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ is the story about the life of Gangubai Kothewali, a young girl who got sold into prostitution by her boyfriend Ramnik Lal, and how she becomes the madam of a brothel in Kamathipura.The movie will be revolving around the life of Gangubai Kothewali, a strong, controversial woman who portrayed herself as the ‘Madam of Kamathipura’ in the '60s. Parts of her story are known through a chapter dedicated to her in the book Mafia Queens of Mumbai, written by best-selling author and former investigative journalist S Hussain Zaidi.