When 23-year old physiotherapy student, Jyoti Singh, was brutally raped and murdered in Delhi in December 2012, her death sent shockwaves of protest throughout the Indian subcontinent, and inspired Leslee Udwin — a BAFTA-nominated producer — to make a documentary that examined the horrifying crime and its fallout. But India’s Daughter has just been banned in India — a move that Udwin roundly condemns, as the documentary is an eloquent examination of contemporary Indian attitudes and has been hailed as “a momentous expression of hope for society.”
The filmmaker has since appealed to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to intervene against the domestic ban, The Guardian reports. Udwin wrote in an editorial for India’s NDTV:
I am deeply saddened by today’s attempts to silence the film ‘India’s Daughter’ and to derail an impassioned plea for gender equality. India is a democracy with civilised laws, but sadly this flouting of a basic right to freedom of speech…is flying in the face of civilised values.
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