Kajarya

Cast : Meenu Hooda, Ridhima Sud, Kuldeep Ruhil, Shashi Bhushan

Rated : 7/10

This one is about a serious issue so director Madhureeta Anand is on solid turf — her turf. More like a docu-feature film, goes into a Haryana village rookie woman reporter and tries to get to the truth behind the more than 100 killing of baby girls — by a witch!

Played to near perfection by Meenu Hooda, the witch is just a scapegoat for delving into the more widespread oppression of women — in all strata, in all societies. Anand excels in keeping the focus on the issue so intensely that the film turns out to be a no nonsense hard look at female foeticide, skewed sex ratio and women being imported from Bangladesh and Chhattisgarh to keep families going. And yet, giving birth to a girl means taking her to the grave with gruesome killing by salt.

The film makes a statement and does not shy from anything that touches the issue. Be it the witch who has been drawn into the game by her unscrupulous lover boy or, for that matter, the wide-eyed reporter who lets her down by giving out her name for some fame, Anand tells you that the debauchery and the haplessness is at all levels. Kudos for a powerful portrayal.

Source: The Sunday Pioneer