A slum trash picker trades garbage for gangsters — but at what cost to her soul?
The story of a rebel trash picker living in the slums of Bombay India. She dreams of being able to have simple luxuries like a bath or decent clothes to cover her body. One day she gets her opportunity through a drug smuggler of Bombay and quickly learns all that glitters is not gold. Whether it be a drug lord, a murder, rapist or the legal system; Revati is a fighter that keeps a sense of humor about her plight. Revati shows the life's struggles of a woman struggling to keep her morality and dignity in a place that tries hard to strip her of all she has in many extreme circumstances. Revati dares to be different and live by her own rules. Will she win and yet keep her morality? Will she survive?
Acting
Kashmera Shah's ferocious, unsentimental lead performance.
Production
Bombay slums shot with unvarnished documentary realism.
Director
Farogh Siddique
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the rare Indian films centering a female Dalit protagonist without sanitizing her poverty or agency.
Kashmera Shah, known for B-movies and item numbers, fought for this dramatic lead against typecasting; critics called it her career's only 'real' performance.
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