Culture Days: FREE screenings of Shaw Media-Hot Docs projects for Culture Days 2015.
Twenty hand-picked contestants for the Miss India pageant enter an intense month-long beauty boot camp in Bombay. Winning the coveted title means instant stardom, a lucrative career and freedom from the constraints of a patriarchal society. In another corner of India, young girls undergo physical combat training and learn how to be obedient Hindu women at a camp run by the women’s branch of the militant fundamentalist movement. As massive change sweeps through India, control over women and their behaviour is at the epicentre of a violent clash between Western modernity and age-old patriarchal traditions. Director Nisha Pahuja gained extraordinary access to women and their families living in two very different worlds—it’s the first time a camera has been allowed into the fundamentalist camp—to craft a brilliant film that captures the choices and contradictions facing young women in India today. Lynne Fernie, Hot Docs
In English and Hindi, with English subtitles.
Producer Cornelia Principe will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Tickets: FREE tickets (limit two per person) are available at the Bloor box office. Bloor members can access tickets online by signing in with their member number.
Presented as part of the Bloor St. Culture Corridor Hub for Culture Days.