Tag: Jyoti Singh

Tales of Rape: Bandit Queen (1995) + India’s Daughter (2014)

Tales of Rape: Bandit Queen (1995) + India’s Daughter (2014)

April 9, 2015 | By

Reviews of two powerful films on rape: the saga of Phoolan Devi in Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen (1995) on Blu from Twilight Time + Leslee Udwin’s India’s Daughter (2014), produced by the BBC and currently banned in India.

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Film: India’s Daughter (2014)

Film: India’s Daughter (2014)

April 9, 2015 | By

In the evening of December of 2012, 23 year-old New Delhi medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey went out with a friend to see a movie, but rather than settle for an action flick, she chose Life of Pi (2012), a life-affirming tale about trust, respect, and a healthy fear of that prevents a tiger from devouring a boy in a boat after a ship’s sinking. Within the next roughly 48 hours after boarding a bus to take her and her male friend home, Jyoti would die of injuries from a monstrously sadistic gang rape…

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