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 Title
Matrubhoomi
Cast Sushant Singh, Tulip Joshi, Sudhir Pandey, Piyush Mishra
Director Manish Jha
Genre Drama
Year 2005
The film "Matrubhoomi - A nationwithout women" explores the impact of absence
of women on men. The instability, which can creep into a society due to the
absence of women-be it physical, emotional and psychological - is the main theme
of the film. It underlines how the absence of women inexorably leads to the
debasement of men, draining them of all that makes them human.
The film explores a futuristic rural India wherein due to rampant female
infanticide, women are practically extinct. The impact of the absence of women
on men sees them finding alternative sources of release - pornography,
homosexuality, bestial violence. When a girl is actually spied, she is promptly
sold and married to five brothers. All five and the father-in-law exercise their
conjugal rights in turn. She starts coming closer to the youngest brother, the
only one who treats her as a human being much to the chargin of the father and
other brothers. The eldest brother has the youngest one killed. She turns to her
father for refuge but the father blinded with money too lets her down. After her
attempt to escape with the low caste family servant boy unwittingly triggers off
a caste war, she is clapped in iron chains in a cowshed and raped repeatedly by
her family and the low castes as well. When she finally becomes pregnant,
everyone claims paternity. In the throes of the devasting caste war that ensues
over her, she gives birth to a girl.
   
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