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Completed - HINDI - Social issues, Crime, Drama - 110 minutes

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Madhureeta ANAND
Writer(s) : Madhureeta ANAND
Cast : Meenu HOODA, Kuldip RUHIL, Ridhima SUD

Synopsis

KAJARYA, a film that tells a story set in the backdrop of female infanticide and the widespread preference for male progeny in today’s India, is being selected to a series of Critical Film Festivals.

The film is a powerful, yet sensitively handled story that touches on several issues in the subtext of its narrative. It revolves around the story of a rookie journalist in Delhi who exposes a woman, believed to embody Goddess Kali, who ritually kills female newborns in a village nearby.

The film questions notions of women’s emancipation, feminism and of themselves as it weaves though an interplay of drama and events and explores how India continues to live in many centuries at the same time, both in its villages as well in its cities.

Production

Country(ies) : INDIA

Festivals and Awards

Dubai DIFF 2013 (Official Selection)
Montréal World FF 2014 (Official Selection)
Elles Tournent, Brussels 2014 (Official Selection)
The International Human Rights Film Festival 2014 (Official Selection)
The Lady Film Makers Festival 2014 (Official Selection)
LA Femme International Film Festival 2014 (Official Selection)
Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival 2014 (Official Selection)
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2014 (Official Selection)
First Silk Road Film Festival 2015 (Best Foreign Film (Audience Choice))


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