Ruhi Singh is a small town girl with big city dreams. She sets off to Bombay to win the title of Miss India--a launching pad to fame and a surefire way to stand out in a country of 1.2 billion people. Just hours from the Miss India beauty boot camp is another training ground for girls--that of the Durga Vahini, a Hindu nationalist group exclusively for women. Here we meet Prachi Trivedi, a young, fearsome drill sergeant training Indian girls to fight against Western culture, ... (Full plot summary below)
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Ruhi Singh is a small town girl with big city dreams. She sets off to Bombay to win the title of Miss India--a launching pad to fame and a surefire way to stand out in a country of 1.2 billion people. Just hours from the Miss India beauty boot camp is another training ground for girls--that of the Durga Vahini, a Hindu nationalist group exclusively for women. Here we meet Prachi Trivedi, a young, fearsome drill sergeant training Indian girls to fight against Western culture, Islam and Christianity by any means necessary including violence. Gliding back and forth between the action of the two camps, the dreams and conflicts of India and young Indian women are laid bare-- the two opposing worlds aren't as far away from each other as they seem.
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| Toronto StarPeter HowellExtreme choices and attitudes confronting women in India are laid bare in Nisha Pahuja's quietly shocking film, the Best Canadian Feature winner at Hot Docs 2012. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlWith extraordinary access, Pahuja illuminates extraordinary conflicts and contradictions facing modern girls in a country even less ready for them than ours. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldRiveting docu explores rights of girls, women in India. |
| sbs.com.auCraig MathiesonTradition and fashion, history and the future, politics and consumerism - these are the conflicts of this strong documentary. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakThe World Before Her's stark juxtaposition may surprise in its intricacies, though, after delving into the psyches of the four girls followed. |
| User ReviewTim SPositively fascinating. I saw this at a film festival where, afterwards, the director spoke and answered questions which added more to this already skillful documentary. |
| User ReviewValentina KFascinating film about two completely different viewpoints on modern women's place in India. On the one hand: a culture promoting Western beauty and pageantry. On the other: a militant Muslim training camp that teaches girls how to kill those who oppose their religion. No idea why this wasn't nominated for any major awards - it's a deserving film. |
| User ReviewMarco Gdocumentary showing the mind blowing rift between the traditional Hindu gender roles and that of the more "modern" Indian woman |
| User ReviewTylerOne of the best documentaries I have seen in a long time. The battle between opposing worldviews in India today---right-wing Hindu fundamentalism and beauty pageant materialism. Alternatingly fascinating, funny, and sad. |
| User Reviewoluwakemi oPoignant and gut-wrenching. One young woman spends her life training for violent Hindu extremism. Her father proudly desribes beating and burning her as punishments. She expresses a gender variance and a desire to never marry, while her father insists she MUST marry, and even if it's a bad marriage, it is her duty to stay and produce children. She says it is her father's right to beat her, because he was kind enough to not kill her at birth for being a girl. Meanwhile, 20 women prepare to compete in the Miss India pageant. They talk about being modern and free to follow their desires, but also speak of women being savagely beaten for being out with a man or consuming alcohol. The pageant judges require them to wear white bags over their heads and bodies with eyeholes cut in them, so they can be judged on their legs without the "distraction" of their hair and bodies. One contestant's mother speaks of her husband's desire to murder her daughter at birth, and her defiance resulted in him leaving her a single mother. |
