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07.12.2023 - 19:49 / deadline.com
In a village in the Indian state of Jharkhand, Ranjit and his wife Jiganti keep vigil at night over their home, a simple dwelling with packed-earth floors. If they don’t, anything could happen: Their neighbors have threatened to kill the couple and their children.
Ranjit and Jiganti have done nothing to warrant such terror, other than to go against village customs. After their 13-year-old daughter Kiran was sexually assaulted by three local youths, they resisted intense pressure to remain silent — to excuse the crime and the perpetrators. Instead, they demanded justice.
Their struggle plays out in the documentary To Kill a Tiger, directed by Nisha Pahuja and executive produced by a prominent team including Dev Patel, Mindy Kaling and Dr. Atul Gawande, the surgeon and bestselling author. The film, winner of more than 20 awards at festivals around the world, situates the story in an alarming cultural context: By one estimate, 71 percent of rapes in India go unreported.
Those who dare to speak out, like Kiran and her parents, risk a scornful backlash. As the film documents, Ranjit’s attempt to gain assistance from local officials met with hostility. “If the girl wasn’t there, would this have happened?” the local ward leader demands of him. “This is a major thing we should focus on… A girl always bears some blame.”
Pahuja, who was born in India but raised in Canada, spent eight years working on the film. Over that time, she gained a sense of the dynamics in a tiny, rural enclave like Bero.
“You’re understanding the intricacies of what this village is, the fact that it is kind of an ecosystem, a very complex ecosystem that is rooted in survival… India is a culture that is not based necessarily on the individual. It
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