Besides winning the ‘Best Documentary’ award at the Palm Springs festival, Nisha Pahuja’s documentary film ‘To Kill a Tiger’ had also bagged several other international awards at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian Screen Awards, and the New York Indian Film Festival, etc.
And now, the documentary has just added another feather in its cap. Nisha Pahuja’s ‘To Kill a Tiger’ has now been awarded the Women Film Critics Circle Award for Best Documentary By or About Women.
Other major winners at the recently announced Women Film Critics Circle Awards include ‘Barbie’ (Best Movie About Women), ‘Past Lives’ (Best Movie By A Woman), Emma Stone (Best Actress for ‘Poor Things’), ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ (Best Foreign Film By Or About Women), Annette Bening & Jodie Foster (Best Screen Couple for ‘Nyad’), and ‘Lessons In Chemistry’ (Best TV Series), amongst others.
Coming back to ‘To Kill a Tiger’, the Canadian documentary film directed by Nisha Pahuja is set in India. The intense and hard-hitting documentary film 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.
Earlier this year, Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire’s lead actor Dev Patel had boarded ‘To Kill a Tiger’ as an executive producer. He called the film 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.
As of now, ‘To Kill a Tiger’ is not streaming anywhere on an Indian OTT platform and didn’t get a theatrical release in India. But we hope it will premiere on a popular Indian streaming service very soon. Stay tuned to Binged for the latest updates on that.
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