Movie- The Shameless

Renuka escapes Delhi brothel after killing a police inspector and arrives at a small town in Uttar Pradesh. She meets Devi and begins to love her. In between loving a person and facing the harsh world, she walks her path. It's depicts the plight of sex workers in India and how it's intertwined with gender, patriarchy and politics. Directed by Konstantin Bojanov starring Anasuya Sengupta, Oomara. 

With the premiere screening at Geneva, I got a chance to catch up with the director and the actor. In post film screening, Konstantin shared how he began to work on this idea. Got inspired by one of the stories he read in Nine lives in search of sacred in modern India. At first, he tried to work on a documentary and eventually turned it into He worked for 14 years to finally get this movie where it is right now.  On being asked about how he got a lot of things right in the movie, beginning from Indian cultural tensions to realistic framing, he emphasized on his curiosity for existential drama rather than his passion for storytelling rather than the moral rights of telling the story right or not. 

I'm perplexed by the traditions that shackle women in many ways. In the movie, Renuka seems to be the bad girl indulging Devi in bad habits however, Devi's family forces her into prostitution, in the name of tradition or lack of choice. Also, how far one goes in love? I'm impressed with Omara's and Anasuya's acting for exploring complex characters. Also, Konstantin mentioned that he did not intended to make a political movie. He intended to make a movie. 'As simple as human's crave to tell stories, I wanted to tell a story,' he mentioned. 

As I got a chance to talk to Konstantin, I shared my surprise, 'how did you manage to get everything right? I was trying to see if there could be one element where your foreign gaze would come into frame?'

'I have a brilliant team- production, design team in Paris who worked. Also got a lot of cultural researchers on it. We built sets with brick and mortar and took care of all the elements'

Will this movie be released in India? We have to wait and watch.