NOTHING that a feature-length fiction film postulates on the hurdles that women face in India can be deemed an eye-opener. The reality is infinitely more skewed than what a big-screen dramatization of it can ever capture.
A new Bengali film, Ranjan Ghosh’s Mahishasur Marddini (A Night to Remember), pieces together stories of gender discrimination and sexual violence to attempt the onerous task of revealing the sheer gravity of the situation on the ground. It succeeds to a great extent.
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