Earlier this year, a Canadian documentary film set in India – ‘To Kill a Tiger’ was showcased at the 2023 edition of the Palm Springs Film Festival alongside acclaimed Indian documentaries like Pan Nalin’s ‘Chhello Show’ and Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’. ‘To Kill a Tiger’ had bagged the ‘Best Documentary’ award at the fest.
Now, the award-winning documentary ‘To Kill a Tiger’ has come once again into the limelight after Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire’s lead actor Dev Patel has boarded the film as an executive producer. The film is set to be released at the Film Forum in New York on 20th October later this year followed by a wider theatrical release in the US. However, the film’s theatrical / OTT release details in India are currently not confirmed.
Directed by Nisha Pahuja, the intense and hard-hitting documentary film ‘To Kill a Tiger’ revolves around a Jharkhand based impoverished farmer Ranjit, who goes against all odds to seek justice for the brutal gang rape of his thirteen-year-old daughter. Ranjit and his family must undertake the extremely arduous journey and a 14-month long legal fight against the preparators of the heinous crime.
Besides winning the ‘Best Documentary’ award at the Palm Springs festival, ‘To Kill a Tiger’ has also bagged several other international awards at the prestigious ‘Toronto International Film Festival’, Canadian Screen Awards, and the New York Indian Film Festival, etc.
Dev Patel has described the documentary film ‘To Kill a Tiger’ as a David and Goliath story to the highest extent as well as one of the most important in modern Indian history. And rightly so, because more such films should be made in the future in order to make the audiences aware of the plight that several Indian women have to endure after they are sexually assaulted. Stay tuned to Binged for the latest updates on the documentary film ‘To Kill a Tiger’.