Pink Saris

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“The reason I wanted to make this film was because Sampat Pal seemed incredible. Many women who, like her, were married young and were beaten, showed up to her doorstep for help. I liked that she was a rebel, didn’t go to school, and couldn't read and write because of the conventions of the village and yes she had found the courage to fight back. It’s been hard to keep in touch with Sampat because she doesn’t speak any English and she’s not on the internet. After I finished making the film, she briefly went into politics even though she said she wasn’t going to – she tried to get elected, but it didn’t happen. She continues to speak out against cruelty to women.” - Kim Longinotto, Documentary Filmmaker

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Release Date:	Sep 14, 2010
Running Time:	96 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Hindi

synopsis

"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. 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 or fifteen year old Renu, whose father-in-law has been raping her. 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.