The Forgotten Woman
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{{Infobox film
| image = The Forgotten Woman.jpg
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| director = Dilip Mehta
| producer = David Hamilton
| writer = Deepa Mehta
| starring = V. Mohini Giri, Indira Jaisingh, Aishwarya Mukherjee, Usha Rai
| cinematography = Giles Nuttgens
| editing = Colin Monie
| released = {{Film date|2008|8|9|USA|df=yes}}
| runtime = 88 minutes
| country = Canada
| language = English
Hindi
Bengali
}}
The Forgotten Woman is a 2008 Canadian documentary film directed by Dilip Mehta and written by Deepa Mehta. The film is about widows in India and was inspired by Deepa Mehta's 2005 Academy Award-nominated film on the same subject, Water.{{cite news |title=Stigmatized by Society|author=Nathan Lee
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/movies/08forg.html|newspaper= New York Times|date=August 7, 2008 |accessdate=February 11, 2014}}{{cite web | title = Forgotten Woman (The)|publisher=Telefilm Canada| url = http://www.telefilm.ca/en/catalogues/production/forgotten-woman | accessdate = 2014-02-11 }}
Cast
- V. Mohini Giri as Self
- Aishwarya Mukherjee as Self
- Ginny Shrivastava as Self
- Indira Jaisingh as Self
- Usha Rai as Self
Synopsis
The film The Forgotten Woman was shot in direct response to this interest and aims to increase awareness of the plight and marginalization of many of the millions of widows living in India today who are compelled by long-standing customs to spend their final years alone and shunned by the larger community. The movie examines how these widows, who were forced by their family to give up their belongings, ended up being social outcasts.
The Forgotten Woman seeks to raise awareness of the various and pervasive challenges that still surround women's pursuit of economic independence in the 21st century in order to achieve a semblance of self-respect, self-sufficiency, and fundamental human decency.{{Cite web |title=The Forgotten Woman |url=https://www.filmblanc.com/films/the-forgotten-woman/ |access-date=2022-10-25 |website=Filmblanc Inc. – Film production |language=en-US}}
Production
The film was primarily shot in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.{{cite web |date=August 2008 |title=Meet the Filmmakers: Dilip Mehta--'The Forgotten Woman' |url=http://www.documentary.org/content/meet-filmmakers-dilip-mehta-forgotten-woman |accessdate=2014-02-11 |publisher=International Documentary Association}}
Awards
- WINNER – Hollywood Film Festival – BEST DOCUMENTARY
- WINNER – Mira Das Doc, Spain – BEST HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY
- Selected as part of the Elite Series of the Academy of Motions Pictures (The Oscars)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.hamiltonmehta.com/films/the-forgotten-woman/}}
- {{IMDb title|1271973}}
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Category:Canadian documentary films
Category:Documentary films about women in India
Category:Films about widowhood in India
Category:Films shot in Uttar Pradesh
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