Article 15

Jeanne 2022-09-25 14:23:38

Adapted from real events, the "fig leaf" of Indian police and bandit collusion is completely lifted. In 2014, a vicious rape and murder case occurred in Ushati village in Uttar Pradesh, India. The victims were a pair of sisters, only 14 and 16 years old. What is even more sighing is that the case was only less than two years after the "Indian black bus case". year. The story begins after the rape and murder of a girl. A Yang, an officer who returned from studying in the UK, took over the case. The ubiquitous caste system is portrayed in the first few minutes of the film. A Yang wanted to drink water on the road, but was told by the police: "They are untouchables, and we can't drink their water. We can't touch them, and even their shadows can't fall on us."

In the next scene, when they arrived at the police station, the policeman kept playing with the yellow dog at the door. When the case was first investigated, the policeman Duff first prepared to close the case on the grounds that the girl's father had killed the two girls. From the painful expressions of the dead girl's relatives, Ayang guessed that the matter was not what Duff described. When a task force was set up to investigate the matter, Duff urged again, hoping to push all the sins to the victim's father and end it quickly. this case. In the film, Duff's narration is: "I have the old and the young, you don't want to break this balance because of temporary justice."

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  • Nishad: Sometimes, it feels like there is no hope, but you can't admit it because of all the people who get their strength from you.

    Gaura: But you can tell me though.

    Nishad: Sometimes i think about all the things i wanted to do. I wanted to bring you flowers, but such dreadful things were happening around us every day, that it felt like a sin to even smile at you. Life has been so difficult, that i never managed to find five minutes to sit quietly with you, with our feet dipped in the river. I have never looked at the moon for even five minutes. I don't even have five minutes of peace in my life.

  • Ayan Ranjan: Staying neutral when a fire is raging, is standing with the ones who lit it.