New Delhi: Sanjay Leela Bhansali's first show 'Hiramandi: The Diamond Bazaar' on Netflix, India is getting mixed reviews. Now some internet users have claimed that there are historical mistakes in the period drama. In this, there are some mistakes in the timeline of the way the Lahore area has been shown before independence. Hamd Nawaz, a doctor from Lahore, has written a letter on X. In this, he is telling in detail how Bhansali's show Heeramandi is completely different from the real area, about which he, being a citizen of Pakistan, has read and known. He wrote, “Just saw Heeramandi. Everything was found in it except Hiramandi. I mean, either you don't set your story in 1940 Lahore or if you do, you don't set it in the landscape of Agra, the Urdu of Delhi, the Lucknowi attire, and the atmosphere of the 1840s. The Lahori in me cannot ignore it.

“Hiramandi extended from Taksali Gate to today's Fajay Kay Paye or Cheet Ram Road. You can roam around here thoroughly and see everything but you will not find even a single courtyard like this. Such a big thing is out of the question. There were hardly 5/10 mala brothels/houses. Do That Baath was shown in the film but it does not actually exist.

He also argued that the average Lahori in the 1940s conversed in Punjabi and not Urdu as Bhansali has shown in his series. He even said that Amir Khusro's 'Sakal Ban' was not a song to be sung in that era, “Sakal Ban was a Lahori song waali cheez nahi thi, chaiti boudi ve tabiba thi. This was the 1940s, Noor Jahan's Punjabi masterpiece – cinema had given the stage to many Hiramandi singers and none of them looked like the Sufiana custard we see here.” 

Hamd also argued that the courtesans of that era and that region never wore such attractive and luxurious clothes as Bhansali made the dress. He wrote, "Bhansali's explorations should surely have gone further than the bridal couture walk. Vaishya never had the remotest financial security to purchase this jewelry. This blouse? Saree? Ghagra? Lehenga? Perhaps a Punjabi Dress? Let's go to Sabyasachi.

"It was not a path of glamor but of exploitation, slavery, and filthy poverty. The people who lived there deserve at least to be seen as they were." He concluded, "I've seen the place, talked to the people there, worked in the hospitals there, and I think this story definitely deserves to be told. But only if someone actually lived in that area." Come and visit what he is bringing to life."

Some others shared a screenshot of Sonakshi Sinha's character Faridan reading an Urdu newspaper. It is visible with the date that it is 2022. Set against the backdrop of the Indian freedom struggle of the 1940s, Heeramandi stars an ensemble cast including Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Sheikh, Sharmin Sehgal and Taha Shah Badusha.