Recently, I read a gut-wrenching article on Rajasthan’s Nirbhaya titled “Waiting for the 20th surgery”. The author unraveled horrifying details about the gang rape of a girl who was so brutally assaulted by six men in Jaipur in August 2012 that her vagina tore and merged with her rectum.
The girl was only 12-year-old the time.
Coincidentally, I ended up watching Nagesh Kukunoor’s ‘Lakshmi’, also based on a true story on child prostitution, during the same time and reiterating the fact that moviemakers, often attacked by the moral police for promoting crime through their cinematic work, make films that mirror society, where crime, especially against women, is on an upsurge. Read more on msn.
Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society
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