This movie is akin to some documentaries we see on the subject of trading of young girls in India and Asia! I do not know if many people here will have the patience and tolerance to watch this movie but I did! It is based on a book with the same name by Patricia McCormick.
The drunk father of a very poor Nepali girl sells her to a lady who promises better life across the border in India. The girl seems to be about 10 years old and unaware of what is going on ! She is taken to a house in the poorest parts of Calcutta and introduced to some mean ladies who run a brothel made up such young girls. The crowded streets like the ones shown in the movie look familiar to many Indians who have stayed or visited poorer and denser areas of these towns and cities. This is a world of brutal poverty!
There is no inch thick makeup on the girls and ladies, their nails are uncut and hair has no frills as is true of many real Indian ladies ! The shocking details of how the girl is forced into prostitution better be left unsaid! By magic or by design two Americans and an Indian social organization turn up to rescue the girl and the end of the movie is better than the middle parts where you see the girls being beaten and tortured with red chilies when they do not comply or try to escape!
Gillian A. of X-files fame plays a journalist in simple attire unlike the sophisticated and strange characters she plays in her movies and TV shows! I do not know what happens here in America regarding the topic under discussion. Maybe it is all part of daily life here well hidden behind the mobile homes and old cars, seedy hotels, fancy desks and corporate hideouts ! Or maybe it is just my hallucination - nobody sleeps hungry and naked here except for the very rich on a diet!
And why do some people here in USA use foul language similar to the one used by the ladies in the Calcutta brothel ?
The drunk father of a very poor Nepali girl sells her to a lady who promises better life across the border in India. The girl seems to be about 10 years old and unaware of what is going on ! She is taken to a house in the poorest parts of Calcutta and introduced to some mean ladies who run a brothel made up such young girls. The crowded streets like the ones shown in the movie look familiar to many Indians who have stayed or visited poorer and denser areas of these towns and cities. This is a world of brutal poverty!
There is no inch thick makeup on the girls and ladies, their nails are uncut and hair has no frills as is true of many real Indian ladies ! The shocking details of how the girl is forced into prostitution better be left unsaid! By magic or by design two Americans and an Indian social organization turn up to rescue the girl and the end of the movie is better than the middle parts where you see the girls being beaten and tortured with red chilies when they do not comply or try to escape!
This movie shows the inner world of the poor girls and equally poor clients which might not be familiar to most middle class and educated Indians including myself! The brothel has a temple in one corner of the kitchen with picture of Kali goddess and Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa! Education and population reduction might be the long term solution for the girls so they can be independent and find better jobs for themselves! Even that seems like a tall order in these highly populated areas! As one young girl tells us, even the cruel brothel madams help her when she needs money for medicine for a family member!
Gillian A. of X-files fame plays a journalist in simple attire unlike the sophisticated and strange characters she plays in her movies and TV shows! I do not know what happens here in America regarding the topic under discussion. Maybe it is all part of daily life here well hidden behind the mobile homes and old cars, seedy hotels, fancy desks and corporate hideouts ! Or maybe it is just my hallucination - nobody sleeps hungry and naked here except for the very rich on a diet!
And why do some people here in USA use foul language similar to the one used by the ladies in the Calcutta brothel ?
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