New York: Nirbhaya documentary: Inspite of all the protests and outrage from the people all over India against the Nirbhaya documentary, ‘India’s daughter’, BBC is all set to showcase the premiere of the documentary today in the US.
The premiere will be attended by Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep and Frieda Pinto in a show of support for the film banned in India. Meanwhile, parents of Nirbhaya have now said that the filmmaker did not show them the final version of the documentary and they had then refused to sign release papers.
The documentary depicts the after-effects of the brutal gang-rape and the murder of Nirbhaya in 2012. The premiere which is to take place today in US will be attended by the Oscar winning actress Meryl Streep and Frieda Pinto along with its documentary director Leslee Udwin. The global ambassadors of ‘Plan’ will be there to support the documentary which was banned in India.
However, it is said that parents of Nirbhaya refused to sign on release papers of the film as they were not shown the final version of the documentary ‘India’s daughter’. The documentary also features few offensive words and remarks given by one of the rapists. As such, the parents were not in support of the film to be aired. By doing so, the victim’s name will also go public in some wrong sense.
The US premier of the documentary ‘Storyville: India’s daughter’ will take place at the Baruch College of the City University of New York here and will be presented by NGO Vital Voices Global Partnership and children’s development organisation – Plan International.
Streep and Pinto, who is Plan’s ‘Because I am a Girl’ global ambassador, will be joined by the documentary’s director Leslee Udwin at the screening. Udwin, a Plan ambassador, had said the December 2012 rape and the protests that followed was an “Arab spring for gender equality”.
What impelled me to leave my husband and 2 children for 2 years while I made the film in India was not so much the horror of the rape as the inspiring and extraordinary eruption on the streets. A cry of ‘enough is enough’.”
Unprecedented numbers of ordinary men and women, day after day, faced a ferocious government crackdown that included tear gas, baton charges and water cannon. They were protesting for my rights and the rights of all women. That gives me optimism. I can’t recall another country having done that in my lifetime,” Udwin had added.
The documentary, which was premiered in the UK on March 4, will be screened in countries across the globe — including Switzerland, Norway and Canada — to mark International Women’s Day.
Bureau Report
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