The explosive film lifting the lid on sex trafficking between India and La

Love Sonia is the shocking tale of a young woman caught up in the global sex trade.

Its director and stars, including Demi Moore and Freida Pinto, on the true stories that inspired itIn the decade it took Tabrez Noorani to get Love Sonia made, he was leading a double life.

By day, he was line producer for international titles shooting in India, including Slumdog Millionaire, Zero Dark Thirty and Life of Pi; by night he conducted raids on Mumbai brothels, rescuing women forced into sex work alongside anti-trafficking organisations.

“My first raid was when I was working on Slumdog,” says Noorani, who is usually based in Los Angeles.

“I would go undercover with these NGOs and we would pretend we were location-scouting.” In fact, he was casing locations where trafficked women and underage girls were being held.

Later the police and the NGOs would go in and rescue them,

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