HOME | SCOOP!! & NEWS | BOLLYWOOD King of satire dons a serious cap30th July 2005 17.33 IST By Agencies What happens when the king of satire dons a serious cap? "Three Sisters", a movie based on the Kanpur suicides of 1988 and other dowry deaths by Kundan Shah , the man behind cult comedy "Jaane Bhi Do Yaron". The film traces the last six hours of three girls, before they end their lives due to their parents' inability to pay up dowry. "It's a fictionalized account. The wounds were too raw to speak to the families." However, Shah is optimistic that the movie will bring about a change in mindsets . If the applause and moist eyes during the screenings at the 7th Osian Film Festival are anything to go by, the message was well received, he says. 
So what was the most disturbing fact that came up in the research? "Loads of them. 2000 suicides related to dowry occur every year. Also, sex detection is possible through blood and within a week of pregnancy female foetuses are killed, even in urban India." Shah points out. "It may seem silly in Delhi, but women who work are considered a stigma and unmarried girls of a certain age are a legitimate object of lust." Shot on a shoestring budget of less than a crore, Shah claims that it is perhaps the only Indian movie ever with three women as protagonists. Amrita Subhash, Shiju Kataria and Kadambari Kadam play the three sisters driven by their parents and societal attitudes to take the drastic step. He is optimistic of a theatrical release though it has been made for a television channel. So does he see it as a climb down? "No, I still take one shot, just that I use eight cameras," he quips. He may have made the hugely popular 'Nukkad', 'Circus' and 'Yeh jo hai Zindagi' but believes that serials are repetitive. He does admit his bias towards the silver screen. Related Kundan Shah |
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