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ABOUT THE FILM

In 2018, Aditya Kripalani made his second film ‘Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal’  has Shalini Vatsa as the lead who has acted in films like Peepli Live, Gurgaon and most recently Sacred Games, Vinay Sharma (CRD, Kabir Singh, Color Black) and Chitrangada Satarupa (Tikli and Laxmi Bomb, Ahare Mon). 

Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal made waves in the country after it’s release on Netflix. Before that, the film was festival round at various prestigious festivals. The film was screened  21^st UK Asian Film Festival, UK, May 2019, 17^th Garden State Film Festival, New Jersey, March 2019 and at the 20^th Kala Ghoda Film Festival, Mumbai, February 2019. 

SYNOPSIS:

Delhi is known as the rape capital of India. Four women from various parts of the Capital, (which is a vast union territory aside from being a city), meet by chance in a ‘ladies only’ taxi ride. Getting into an altercation with a man who’s teasing them, they end up choosing to make an example of him. They kidnap him, break him first physically, then mentally, keep him hostage, and bring him to the point of gang rape. Will they succeed in sending out a message to men all over India? Will they see the change they want? Will the darkness they chase, also make its own pact with them in the process? Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal, tries to explore these questions.

 

ADITYA KRIPALANI  ON THE FILM:

At the surface, the intention of this film is to get men to see, experience, and feel vicariously, what the everyday fear of rape feels like. It’s also to make men realise that women can also be as brutal, as heinous, as harsh, as violent, as crude even in India, despite their upbringing and conditioning. It is to get men to understand that every day in India, women choose not to. But at a larger level, the deeper intention of this film is to also begin a discussion on whether violence or doing the same thing back to the perpetrator would make one feel better, especially when one has been conditioned in a certain way since childhood in a country as the more sensitive gender. Also, whether men, would feel anything other than shame at the hands of the same society that makes women feel shame all the time, if something like this were done to them. 

And whether that shame is of any use in reform, because it’s neither introspection, regret, nor remorse. 

 

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