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Water
Why this pick
Like Matrubhoomi, it uses a stark Indian social reality to expose institutionalised misogyny, centring women trapped by customs that turn private suffering into a wider moral indictment.
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MOVIE2003 1h 39m FRA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story begins in a rural village in Bihar, with the delivery of a baby girl to a village couple. Her disappointed father, who was hoping for a boy, drowns her in vat of milk in a public ceremony. Many years later somewhere around 2050 A.D., this unchecked trend leads to the village being populated solely by males. The now uncouth and aggressive young men of the village are desperate for wives and release their frustration through group screenings of imported pornographic films, cross-dressing dance performances, and even bestiality. They are shown to be willing to go to the lengths of human trafficking and courtship-driven emigration to procure spouses for themselves.
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