Gangubai Kathiawadi's purported adopted son Babu Raoji Shah, speaking to AajTak, expressed displeasure with Alia Bhatt's film wherein she's portraying Gangubai. "My mother has been turned into a prostitute. People are saying inexplicable things about my mother," he stated. "[They] are representing a social activist as a prostitute...They've made her a...lady don," said Gangubai's family's lawyer.