Abstract:

This award-winning Indian drama is based on the shocking true story of a woman activist in rural Rajistan in the early 1980's. Sanwari (played brilliantly by Nandita Das), a young married woman, joins the national Saathin movement which seeks to stamp out such social evils as child marriages. Her encouragement of other village women to join her in her fight raises the ire of the upper-class landlords, who extract their revenge by brutally gang-raping her in front of her husband Sohan (Raghuvir Yadav). But even this does not stop Sanwari, who instead of hiding her shame, surprises the village by fighting for justice, only to be raped again--this time, by the corrupt, chauvinistic justice system. With Gulshan Grover and Deepti Naval.