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 existenti...
