Nirbhoya
Nirbhoya is a 2018 Bengali film directed by Milan Bhowmik and produced by Sanjib Samaddar under the banner of Sambit Media and Productions. The film is based on the 2012 [Delhi gang rape case]. Apart from West Bengal, the film was also to be released in other states like Orissa, Assam and Bihar. Another version of the film, dubbed in Hindi script editing in Hindi done by Sudeshu Shivam was also to be released.
Cast
- Meghali as Nirbhaya
- Raaj Bhowmik as Nirbhaya's friend
- Jaysree
- Amrapali
- Riya
- Soumitra Chatterjee as the Chief Minister
- Sreelekha Mitra
- Badshah Maitra
- Mrinal Mukherjee
- Ashish Vidyarthi as a police officer
- Rajesh Sharma
- Biplab Chatterjee
- Ramen Roychowdhury
- Gouri Shankar Panda
- Subhasish Mukhopadhyay
- Kalyan Chatterjee
Production
Making
In an interview, Ashish Vidyarthi said that the director of Nirbhoya was inspired to make this film after he read a report of a rape and mutilation of a victim of South Africa soon after the Delhi incident. The victim of the rape was a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist whose real name was Jyoti Singh, but she came to be known as Nirbhaya, meaning "fearless". However, during a press meet at the Press Club Kolkata, director Milan Bhowmik said that the film is not based on the Delhi rape case, but actually on the present scenario of our society. He added that the film will create a sense of responsibility among his viewers. The mahurat of Nirbhoya was held at the Floatel Hotel in Kolkata on 11 February 2013.According to the director, the aim of the film is to make the people aware that anti-rape laws or street protests alone cannot prevent the repetition of such a dangerous event. Though the incident was set in Delhi, the characters of the film would be based in West Bengal. The film is also the first project of the production house, Sambit Media and Productions.