The Rapist, to be launched shortly in India, is a really particular movie. It is Applause Entertainment’s first function movie and in addition Aparna Sen’s first Hindi movie. It options Aparna’s daughter Konkona Sen Sharma as a rape sufferer. The movie had premiered on the Busan International Film Festival in 2021, however hasn’t been launched commercially in India, but.
Naina Malik (Konkona) has a supportive husband (Arjun Rampal) to manoeuvre their troubled marriage by the brutal act of sexual violation. The delicate topic has been touched upon prior to now in a Hindi movie, Manik Chatterjee’s 1976 movie Ghar by which the raped lady’s marriage is cut up huge open by the trauma. The movie is remembered to today for its fabulous music by RD Burman, and nothing else. Rekha spent many of the display screen house wanting with smouldering self pity into huge open areas together with her make-up refusing to fade regardless that she performed a deeply disturbed lady.

Konkona Sen Sharma in The Rapist is all there. She is so invested in her position that at instances it looks like we’re watching a lady being sucked into the vortex of an existential disaster from which no remedy can pull her out. She is deeply immersed in her character’s ache, and makes The Rapist probably the most vital movie as regards to rape in Indian cinema.

The Rapist is Aparna Sen’s sixteenth function movie. The Hindi language in The Rapist needed to occur organically. Earlier Aparna did a Hindi adaptation of Badal Sircar’s play in 2015 Sari Raat. But that was a brief movie. The Rapist is her first full-length Hindi function movie. She did have a superb Hindi dialogue author Hussain Haidry for The Rapist.

Says Aparna, “The Rapist is my first full-length Hindi feature film. The language has to happen organically. My first film 36 Chowringhee Lane had to be in English because the protagonist was an anglo-Indian. Or Mr & Mrs Iyer, one protagonist speaks Tamil the other Bengali. So which language should they communicate in. English, right?”

Aparna admits language is now not a difficulty. “All movies are subtitled in English. Also, our type of movies are hardly ever seen by rural audiences. The urban-rural divide amongst audiences has turn out to be actually sharp.”