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June 08, 2009By Aparna Singh LAST YEAR, when I read Lotus’ review of The Road of Lost Innocence, just the review was enough to send shivers down my spine. I doubt I have the stomach for the entire book. The Road of Lost Innocence is a survivor’s account, the memoir of Somaly Mam who survived the brutality of the Cambodian sex [...] Tags: film, prostitution in India, trafficking of women, your name is justine | Category: Art, Culture, Exploitation, Gender, Justice, Prostitution, Violence Against women |
February 26, 2009By Guest Contributor By Amrita Rajan Pity the female villain. Tags: female villains, film, glenn close, hollywood, movies | Category: Media, Popular Culture, Society, Women's Lives |
September 22, 2008By Anindita Sengupta DEEPA MEHTA’S new film on domestic violence premiered at the Toronto film festival. There were two reasons the trailers caught my eye. Firstly, because the abusive man is played by Vansh Bharadwaj who I’ve seen in Neelam Mansingh’s terrific play, The Suit, which played here in Bangalore twice in the last year. I loved his [...] Tags: bell bajao, breakthrough, commercials, deepa mehta, film, television | Category: Culture, Domestic Violence, Media, Society, Violence Against women |
August 12, 2008By Becky Band I VOLUNTEERED TO HELP at the Jaipur Film Festival and one of the films I liked most was UnLimited Girls by Paromita Vohra, which is being touted as India’s first feminist film. UnLimited Girls humorously explores engagements with feminism in contemporary India and is a must-see for those participating in this blog. Whoever said [...] Tags: feminism, feminist films, film, Paromita Vohra, Unlimited Girls, women's movement | Category: Culture, Marriage, Society, Women's Lives |
October 17, 2007By Anindita Sengupta DIRECTOR PRADEEP Sarkar seems to be suffering a hangover from his earlier movie Parineeta, which was based in pre-Independence times. What else can explain his deplorably regressive ideas and sensibilities in Laaga Chunari Mein Daag? For while the film vociferously proclaims its understanding of the “quintessential modern Indian woman”, its storyline falls back on simplistic [...] Tags: bollywood, film, hindi movie, laaga chunari mein daag, Prostitution | Category: Popular Culture, Prostitution, Sex and Sexuality |
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