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Bollywood movie 'Love Sonia' addressing critical issues with a stellar cast is all set to release in the coming week. Here is what you can expect from the film.
A new Indian movie Love Sonia with the rarely addressed topic of human trafficking, is all set to release in the coming week. Here is what you can expect from the film.
You must be sitting peacefully out there in your home, but the world is not all safe, secure and pious. Women and children are sold and left stranded in the world of sex work for the sake of money. Love Sonia, the directorial debut of Tabrez Noorani, is a story that revolves around the lives of two sisters struggling to find each other in the world of human trafficking and forced prostitution.
The recently released two minute trailer of Love Sonia gives us a peek into the heartbreaking tale of 17-year-old Sonia (played by newcomer Mrunal Thakur). Sonia, the movie’s protagonist, travels to Mumbai from her village to find her sister. During her quest, she lands up in the gloomy world of human trafficking and prostitution. In the trailer, we can see snippets of Sonia’s journey to various parts of the world including India, Hong Kong and Los Angles.
The trailer is disturbing, depressing and leaves us with the question of to how secure are women and children in our country.
The scale of human trafficking globally, is massive. India, with its exponentially increasing population, is regarded as one of the main hubs of the trafficking trade, with trafficking occurring in many Indian states. Statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau state that over 20,000 women and children were victims of trafficking in the year 2016. Most NGOs believe that this figure is just the tip of the iceberg. But these survey records give us a picture of the saddening condition of human trafficking in India. The reality of this is what Love Sonia is trying to portray.
The movie is inspired by true incidents. The trailer highlights a few of these and gives you severe chills while showing the misery of those in the flesh trade. Apart from that the movie also focuses on the bond between two sisters, with Mrunal Thakur and Riya Sisodiya acting as Sonia and Preeti respectively. The plot seems to revolve around how they are separated when their father sells Preeti off, maybe due to poverty. Sonia then goes in search of her but gets stuck in the world of sex trade. It is her determination to survive against all odds that hits you hard and leaves you convinced to watch the film when it hits the theatre next week.
The movie is meant to leave you with emotional turmoil and this is evident with the ensemble cast that it has – Richa Chadha, Frieda Pinto, Demi Moore, Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Adil Hussain and Sai Tamhankar. The immensely talented Adil Hussain will be seen as the helpless father of Preeti and Sonia. Richa Chadha is cast a helpful and understanding sex worker who also struggles to set herself free. Anupam Kher is assumed to be the wealthy landlord who trades Preeti for money with her father and the very talented Rajkumar Rao is seen as a concerned activist.
On the whole, Love Sonia promises to compel audiences to think -by revealing the horrifying reality of women forced into sex work by trafficking. What will be interesting to watch is how it plays this issue against the backdrop of two sisters who deeply love one another.
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Rajshri Deshpande, who played the fiery protagonist in Trial by Fire along with Abhay Deol speaks of her journey and her social work.
Rajshri Deshpande as the protagonist in ‘Trial by Fire’, the recent Netflix show has received raving reviews along with the show itself for its sensitive portrayal of the Uphaar Cinema Hall fire tragedy, 1997 and its aftermath.
The limited series is based on the book by the same name written by Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamoorthy, who lost both their children in the tragedy. We got an opportunity to interview Rajshri Deshpande who played Neelam Krishnamoorthy, the woman who has been relentlessly crusading in the court for holding the owners responsible for the sheer negligence.
Rajshri Deshpande is more than an actor. She is also a social warrior, the rare celebrity from the film industry who has also gone back to her roots to give to poverty struck farming villages in her native Marathwada, with her NGO Nabhangan Foundation. Of course a chance to speak with her one on one was a must!
“What is a woman’s job, Ramesh? Taking care of parents-in-law, husband, children, home and things at work—all at the same time? She isn’t God or a superhuman."
The arrays of workstations were occupied by people peering into their computer screens. The clicks of keyboard keys were punctuated by the occasional footsteps moving around to brainstorm or collaborate with colleagues in their cubicles. Most employees went about their tasks without looking at the person seated on either side of their workstation. Meenakshi was one of them.
The thirty-one-year-old marketing manager in a leading eCommerce company in India sat straight in her seat, her eyes on the screen, her fingers punching furiously into the keys. She was in a flow and wanted to finish the report while the thoughts and words were coming effortlessly into her mind.
Natu-Natu. The mellifluous ringtone interrupted her thoughts. She frowned at her mobile phone with half a mind to keep it ringing until she noticed the caller’s name on the screen, making her pick up the phone immediately.
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