Since the documentary was in deep controversies, it was banned by Indian Government from release.
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The film’s ban in India also caused many to speak up against the censorship of such issues as many were shocked to see no remorse from abuser’s side as well as the lawyers who defended his case. The film was banned by Indian government after it sparked violent protests across the country.
British filmmaker Leslee Udwin’s documentary is about the fatal gang-rape in December. 2012 of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student. The Oscar-winning actress says the powerful, hour-long documentary, India’s Daughter, deserves to win an Academy Award.
When Streep introduced the documentary before its USA theatrical release, however, she stressed on the importance of an Oscar for the film: “I’m on the campaign now to get her nominated for best documentary”, said Streep about Udwin’s work. Nirbhaya(Jyothi) died after a 10 days battle with death making it clear her last wish was to kill the rapists who brutally pushed a metal rod inside her and pulled out her intestines.
The film draws on extensive footage of an interview in jail with one of the attackers, Mukesh Singh, who blamed the victim for being out in the evening with a male friend.
“When I first saw [the movie] I couldn’t talk later”, Streep said.
Udwin said she’d found expectation in the demonstrations but was dismayed at the comparatively poor outcry after having a four-year old girl was raped and beaten with rocks in Delhi earlier this month. “The other attackers along with Mukesh Singh have appealed against their death sentences”.
The documentary was banned by the government in 2012, because, excerpts of the movie “appear to encourage and incite violence against women”. “A respectable girl will not roam around at nine o’clock at night”, Singh said. People said that the country does not need to depict such a gruesome rape through a documentary.
The movie, which was screened on BBC Four in March, will open across the U.S. on 23 October.
“A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy”.
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Screenings are also scheduled in a handful of countries from Iceland to China.
