In a brief few words it’s about the gang rape of a little girl after her first period in a village in India in the name of religion. Here’s an excerpt from a review for this movie found on this site:
The actors did so well in the story, especially the child actors in
the role of Maya and Sanjay, that you could not help being deeply affected by the film. Shot in sepia tones, the film brings to the audience the whimsy of rural life in South India, from the perspective of a well-to-do family, but the same whimsy turns into horror. Although these practices are not very common in the educated strata of Indian society, by choosing to make Maya's family an educated lot it seems that the director was trying to hit the message harder - that this is not a piece of fiction, but a gruesome reality. The fact that this is not merely yet another appalling ritual of India was evident from the director's strong message at the end of the film - 'Child abuse is not a cultural phenomena, nor it is bound by region.'
I still shudder, at times, when the stark image of four men who use
religion and illiteracy to rape a girl barely in her teens, and the mass of people who consider it a part of everyday reality, creeps up in my mind. As far as I know, no scripture sanctions such actions. They are just cultural practices created by man in an attempt to exercise sexual, and by extension, patriarchal control. Hopefully movies like these will bring these issues to light, no matter how sickening they are to watch, and some public action will be taken.
1 comment:
but the point is this is quite an old film. And now days there's hardly any film like that anymore. New age hindi films deal with urban issues yes but they somehow lack the intensity and the grit. Films like 'Black' and 'Rang de Basanti' are just some exeptions...
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