You can sense, or it appears common sense, that Sanjay Leela Bhansali—separately credited as creator, director, executive producer, and for screenplay, music of Netflix’s Heeramandi—has never been to Lahore. The setting of his eight-part series.

Wherein the bookstore is called Lahore. As is the restaurant. Heeramadi, I’m told, is nothing like the dingy red-light area, around a grain market, in the 1940s.