- Documentary
- 128 min
- NR
A man. His daughter. The trial of their lives.
Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.
- Sexual violence
- Harm to children
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
Reviews on TMDB
Written by TMDB members; each links to the original. Not part of Tastebuds's numbers.
- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jul 20267/10
Ranjit and his wife left their thirteen year old daughter Kiran to celebrate the closing stages of a wedding ceremony in their home village and went home to bed. When he awoke later to find their front door still open, he was concerned for his missing daughter whom he meets on the lane outside, dishevelled and in tears. She claimed to have been raped by three lads from their village and upon taking her to hospital it would appear that there was no "claim" about it. He immediately informed the police and Kapil, Iswar and Lungru are promptly taken into custody and charged. So why do we need a two hour documentary? Well, what now ensues is a fascinating critique on an almost fuedal society that is far more concerned with reputational stains and their eradication than in the brute criminality of three of their number. Indeed, throughout this film, we see examples of the village hierarchy putting pressure of Ranjit to allow them to deal with this matter internally. Paraphrasing one of the elderly women; Kiran should just marry one of the rapists - she doesn't specify which - and settle down. She has, after all, lost all of her honour and no decent man would ever touch her now. It's actu
Read the whole review on TMDB - Brent Marchanton TMDB · Mar 20247/10
According to official estimates, a woman in India is raped every 20 minutes, and roughly 90% of those incidents go unreported, despite strengthened legal protections that have been put into place. Police investigations seldom achieve much, either, especially since residents in many communities (particularly in rural areas) prefer to handle such episodes among themselves without outside official intervention, a means to avoid bringing undue attention to such troubling circumstances and the attendant shame that accompanies them. However, in 2017 in eastern India, a courageous father whose 13-year-old daughter was brutally assaulted and subsequently beaten by three men chose to pursue the matter legally in court, despite opposition from village residents, who proposed that the young girl simply marry one of the rapists to dispense with the incident. Their inspiring journey in fighting back provides the basis for this Oscar-nominated documentary from writer-director Nisha Pahuja. It effectively chronicles their pursuit of justice despite these oppressive odds, including death threats and ongoing intimidation, as well as antagonism against the film crew in documenting this often-inflamm
Read the whole review on TMDB
Crew
- Nisha PahujaDirector
- Nisha PahujaWriter
- Mrinal DesaiDirector of Photography
- Jonathan GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
- Mike MunnEditor
- David KazalaEditor
- Nisha PahujaProducer
- Cornelia PrincipeProducer
- David OppenheimProducer
Where to watch
Checking availability…
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Restrepo 201085% alikeBoth earnest, contemporary, grave.
Sugarcane 202483% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
Skin 201983% alikeBoth grave, contemporary, earnest.
In the Valley of Elah 200783% alikeBoth grave, contemporary, earnest.
Sweet Sixteen 200281% alikeBoth earnest, contemporary, grave.
Frozen River 200881% alikeBoth contemporary, earnest, grave.
Winter's Bone 201080% alikeBoth contemporary, grave, earnest.
Sujo 202480% alikeBoth grave, contemporary, earnest.
Evicted 201681% alikeBook · Both earnest, grave, contemporary.
Men We Reaped 201379% alikeBook · Both grave, earnest, contemporary.
Often watched with
Recommendations from TMDB. Opening one adds it to Tastebuds
