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Title Pink Saris
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) : sound, color
Summary A film by Kim Longinotto. "A girl's life is cruel...A woman's life is very cruel," notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto's latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women (SISTERS IN LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, ROUGH AUNTIES). Sampat should know - like many others she was married as a young girl into a family which made her work hard and beat her often. But unusually, she fought back, leaving her in-laws and eventually becoming famous as a champion for beleaguered women throughout Uttar Pradesh, many of whom find their way to her doorstep. Like Rekha, a fourteen year old Untouchable, who is three months pregnant and homeless - unable to marry her unborn child's father because of her low caste. Fifteen year old Renu's husband from an arranged marriage has abandoned her, her father-in-law has been raping her and she's threatening to throw herself under a train. Both young women, frightened and desperate, reach out for their only hope: Sampat Pal and her Gulabi Gang, Northern India's women vigilantes in pink. PINK SARIS is an unflinching and often amusing look at these unlikely political activists and their charismatic leader; in extraordinary scenes, we watch Sampat launch herself into the centre of family dramas, witnessed by scores of spectators, convinced her mediation is the best path for these vulnerable girls. Her partner Babuji, who has watched Sampat change over the years, is less certain..
Analysis Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Gender Studies
Race and Class Studies
Notes Duration: 96 minutes
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Event Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2010
Notes In Hindi with English subtitles and optional closed captioning
Subject Pal, Sampat, 1961?-
SUBJECT Pal, Sampat, 1961?- fast
Subject Women -- India -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India
Women -- Crimes against -- India
Women -- Violence against -- India -- Prevention
Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India
Victims of family violence -- Protection -- India
Women's rights -- India
Human rights -- India
Civil rights workers -- India -- Uttar Pradesh -- Biography
Feminists -- India -- Uttar Pradesh -- Biography
Family violence -- India
Sex crimes -- India
Dalits -- India.
Streaming video.
Internet videos.
streaming video.
Women's rights
Women -- Violence against -- Prevention
Women -- Social conditions
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women -- Crimes against
Victims of family violence -- Protection
Sex crimes
Manners and customs
Human rights
Feminists
Family violence
Dalits
Civil rights workers
Abused women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Internet videos
Streaming video
SUBJECT India -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Subject India -- Uttar Pradesh
India
Genre/Form Biographies
Internet videos
Internet videos.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Form Streaming video
Author Longinotto, Kim, director.
Women Make Movies (Firm), production company.
Kanopy (Firm)