Truth Lies Beneath :

Director: Gautam Sen | Producer: Masum AHRC
Genre: Documentary | Produced In: 2005 | Story Teller’s Country: India
Tags: Asia, Human Rights
Synopsis: It was the day of Deepavali, festival of lights… When others were busy in celebrating the sounds and lights of the festival, Mousumi Ari, a girl of seventeen years of age, was being tortured in her in-laws house. She was murdered eventually. Mousumi was married to a boy of her village, at the age of barely sixteen. Her father-in-laws, Swadesh Ari was a home guard in the local Kakdwip Police Station. After her marriage she fell prey to the wrath of her in-laws and was subjected to torture regularly. The administration remained mute. An unholy nexus of the police, hospital-morgue authority and legal administration tried to veil the culprits… to establish the murder as suicide. The film depicts the victim’s voice, so far unheard and the experience of the rights activists stood by the side of the victim family.. narrating what happened actually and explores the eventually of Mousumi’s murder.

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