Written by Anushree Majumdar |Updated: May 1, 2019 12:06:11 pm
In Son Rise, award-winning filmmaker Vibha Bakshi captures the horrors of female foeticide in Haryana
Son Rise examines the cause and effect of Haryana’s skewed gender ratio; it traces the consequences of hushed up abortions, the nearly complete absence of women in the state’s villages, the bride buying/bride kidnapping traffic that follows, and the numerous crimes against women.
Vibha Bakshi’s latest documentary, Son Rise, opens in Khanda Kheri, Haryana, a village not far from the national capital. It is winter and the air is hazy, men in shawls herd sheep next to a highway, a group of men play cards at a street corner. It is not hard to imagine what life here is like when the chill passes — village after village full of mustard fields under bright blue skies, children playing in the open, women shyly turning their faces away from a stranger’s gaze — it is almost idyllic, making one wonder if it is indeed possible to turn back to a time when a man’s reach did not quite exceed his grasp. But something is rotten in the state of Haryana.
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