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 Title
Devaki
Description Perizaad Zorabian,Suman Ranganathan,Arvin Tukker
Director Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
Genre Drama
Year 2006
Devaki, is forced into a marriage with a seventy years old man. On the night of
the marriage she is brutally raped by the brother of the impotent old man in
order to establish the age-old practice of physical dominance of the male over
the female. In protest to the feudal practices, Nandini, an urban girl, who has
come to the village to work as an N.G.O. activist quit her job and comes back to
the city.
But soon Nandini finds out that the urban life is bo different .Economically
betrayed and physically used by her lover.Nandini desperately joins an
advertising agency. But she is shocked to find out that her father,Who has
deserted the family many years back,owns the agency. The father comes up with a
proposal for Nandini to sleep with one of the client in order to procure a
business deal.
Meanwhile ,Devaki developes a relation with a low caste runway boy. For the
first time in her life ,she felt loved and valued and an escape from her
tormented daily life.
Meanwhile,Nandini decides to sell her self to the old client,as a revenge on her
father .The film makes an introspective journey in to the lives of two women
coming from strikingly different background and proves the point that
irrespective of the social condition ,literacy level or the economic status
women in our society are still treated as commodities.
   
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