Lonely Planet Six Degrees Series 1: Mumbai

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"The best way to explore a new city is to connect with the people who live in it. Join jetsetting presenters Toby Amies and Asha Gill on a radical urban adventure as they plug into city after city with the help of its most colourful and clued-in residents.

Mumbai

Determined to fulfill her dream of being in a movie, presenter Asha Gill gets the lowdown on Bollywood's raunchy moves from acclaimed choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant.

Asha meets street photographer David de Souza chronicling the itinerants that work on Mumbai's streets and grasps the chance to understand who these people are before they disappear by helping in a studio shoot of a traditional flagellant.

Asha is invited to a hijra house by the flamboyant cross-dressing eunuch Lakshmi to get an insight into India's 'third sex.' She gets an inkling of Mumbai's place in the global economy when joining Afshan at a call centre where the workers are undergoing surreal voice training to mimic American accents. And finally Asha gets her big break as she dances in the latest Bollywood movie with the biggest star in Indian cinema history - Amitabh Bachchan... "