There is outrage in me but can't lose hope: Meghna on exploring grey areas of justice system in 'Daayra'
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New Delhi, "Daayra" director Meghna Gulzar says the outrage she feels over questions of crime and justice has fuelled some of her work but she believes cinema must also keep hope alive and encourage conversations that could eventually lead to change.
Adding to this, There is outrage in me but can't lose hope: Meghna on exploring grey areas of justice system in 'Daayra' Meghna, whose soon-to-release movie deals with the aftermath of a rape and murder and the functioning of the justice system, shared she does not want to lose optimism though there are issues that trouble her.
Meanwhile, "There is outrage in me, I will not deny it and there has been for many years but one can't lose hope, one cannot stop being optimistic. Therefore, all I can do is create cinema that helps to keep that hope alive, or ask the question, or maybe enforce change," the director of critically-acclaimed movies such as "Talvar", "Raazi", "Chhapaak" and "Sam", told PTI during a media interaction in the national capital on Wednesday evening.
Notably, Meghna shared she saw a form of redemption in the developments that followed the rollout of her earlier films "Talvar" and "Chhapaak", which also engaged with questions of crime, justice and social change.
As per the latest buzz, "Talvar", rolled out in 2015, was based on the 2008 Noida double murder case of a teenager and the domestic help.
In further updates, "Chhapaak", rolled out in 2020, was based on the life of acid attack survivor Laxmi Agarwal and examined the aftermath of such attacks and the fight for tighter regulation of acid sales.
On top of that, "When I made 'Talvar', there was no sight of any kind of closure to that story. It was after the movie was rolled out and many years later that a high court judgment came, and it exonerated the Talwar family. So for me that is redemption," she shared.
"With 'Chhapaak', there was a re-look at the regulation of the sale of acid, for me that is redemption. I am hoping that with 'Daayra', these questions also lead to some kind of improvements, or at least beginning to think of ways to improve our law enforcement and our judicial system. That is the only hope that we can't lose sight of. We can't stop hoping," she added.
Source: Hindustan Times