![]() ![]() Pari, the brilliant 2018 Anushka Sharma film directed by debutant Prosit Roy, is also a noteworthy example. But the way it plays around with the physical safety and sexual security of its three key women to drive home the point is exploitative. Sure, it amplified what needed to be said much before #MeToo knocked the world into sense. Then there is Pink, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s much-loved 2016 courtroom drama on sexual consent that put Taapsee Pannu on the map. ![]() It reduced its protagonist’s suffering to tragedy porn. On the surface, its intentions were noble but it fielded profoundly problematic ideas. ![]() But who do you hold culpable in a country where over 4.2 lakh cases of crimes against women gets registered in one year alone (2021 source: National Crime Records Bureau)?Ī post shared by Janhvi Kapoor you remember Kya Kehna? The 2000 film starring Preity Zinta tried to destigmatize unwed pregnancies at a time when pre-marital sex was seen as the biggest crime a woman could commit. ![]() Even the so-called women-centric films are guilty of exploiting it. It is a tool much preferred by Hindi filmmakers to bring about social reformation. However, this Hindi remake of Mathukutty Xavier’s 2019 Malayalam film Helen isn’t the first to make a woman suffer on screen to enlighten the audience and the men around her. During the frantic search, they warm up to each other as they unwittingly unravel systemic apathy and personal prejudices. In Mili, the latest Janhvi Kapoor film, it takes her getting captured in the cold storage of the fast-food restaurant she works at and fighting for life in sub-zero temperatures for her father to accept her boyfriend.Īs she battles for survival for five long hours in the isolated deep freezer, her father (played by a wonderful Manoj Pahwa) reluctantly joins forces with her boyfriend ( Sunny Kaushal) to find her. ![]()
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