A rural Indian woman joins a campaign against social injustice. Her activism sparks violent retaliation from village elders, forcing her to navigate a corrupt legal system.
Acting
Nandita Das burns with controlled rage in every frame.
Direction
Mundhra refuses to sanitize the brutality of real events.
Writing
Dialogue that lands like stones thrown at glass houses.
Director
Jag Mundhra
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the 1992 Bhanwari Devi case, a Rajasthani social worker whose gang rape by upper-caste men sparked national protests and led to India's first sexual harassment guidelines.
Nandita Das prepared by living with rural activists for weeks; the film was shot in the actual village where events occurred, with some real villagers participating.
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