Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar is an Indian Hindi-language period drama television series created by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The series is about the lives of tawaifs at the red-light district of Heera Mandi in Lahore during the Indian independence movement against the British Raj. It stars Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Richa Chadha, Sanjeeda Sheikh and Sharmin Segal.^[1] Bhansali and Mitakshara Kumar serve as directors.

Principal photography took place from June 2022 to June 2023. The series was released on Netflix on 1 May 2024.

Set against the Indian independence movement against the British Raj in the 1940s, Heeramandi is about the lives of tawaifs living at the red-light district of Heera Mandi in Lahore.^[2]

Heera Mandi was officially announced in April 2021, as a project Bhansali had envisaged 14 years ago.^[7] The eight-part series, which also marks Bhansali's first foray into streaming, began filming in June 2022.^[8] Filming was reported to have ended a year later in June 2023, after Bhansali asked for reshoots in May.^[9][10] Bollywood Hungama reported that Bhansali directed the pilot episode, while the rest of the episodes were directed by Mitakshara Kumar, who had worked as an associate director to Bhansali in Bajirao Mastani and Padmaavat, replacing Vibhu Puri, who had previously been hired.^[11]

In a 2023 interview with Netflix's CEO Ted Sarandos, Bhansali described Heeramandi as his "biggest project" and that that the series would be a tribute to the films Mother India (1957), Mughal-e-Azam (1960), and Pakeezah (1972).^[12]

In an interview designers Rimple Narula and Harpreet Narula revealed that some of the creations for the series, were inspired from the style of Patience Cooper, Suraiya, Swaran Lata, Noor Jehan, Shamshad Begum and Mukhtar Begum.^[13]

The first song from the soundtrack "Sakal Ban", composed by Bhansali, with lyrics written by Amir Khusro and sung by Raja Hasan, was released on 8 March 2024.^[15] On 2 April, the second song "Tilasmi Bahein", sung by Sharmistha Chatterjee, was released.^[16]

A teaser of the series was released in February 2024, with a release date planned on Netflix for later in the year.^[17][18] The following month, it was announced that the series would premiere on 1 May 2024.^[19]