Preethi Mukerjee a.k.a Puja, one of the most highly paid sex workers in Kolkata's Sona kanchi was watching A R Rahman receiving the Oscar statuette. She knows how it feels because she also walked on the same stage to collect the Oscar with Zana Briski, director of the oscar winning documentary Born Into Brothels.
Preethi was one of the nine child artists involved in the documentary in 2004. She with the other children were taught photography to get a view of their world. The children's work was exhibited, and one boy was even sent to a photography conference in Amsterdam. The film won 20 international award excluding the Oscar and the directors flew the children to LA to collect the award.
Stay back and study in US - sounded like dream for the children but this is what they were offered and some did accepted but Preethi backed out. The children who accepted the offer are now studying in New York University and Preethi is in touch with them.
"At this age, I have a flat in Salt Lake, a laptop, expensive phones and lot of money. What do I lack?", says Preethi. She is in touch with director Zana brisky who was upset that preethi joined the trade like her mother. "But this trade has really paid off for me", she says.
Her mother Rakhi, who never wanted her daughter to join the trade, has a photograph of Preethi with the Oscar statuette stuck on a wall.
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