Did anyone else catch this?
Fascinating and deeply disturbing film, particularly given the interviews with one of the participants who apparently views rape as par-for-the-course (although he claims that he was only the driver throughout of the bus in which the assault/rape took place, rather than directly involved) and, more shockingly, the opinions of his defence lawyers - one of whom says at one point that he would proudly immolate a daughter of his in front of his watching family if she engaged in dishonourable "pre-marital activities"...
Apparently the film has been banned in India by some court somewhere and is, according to the Beeb who may have commissioned it, already causing something of a brouhaha.
I think that this was a pretty big story globally at the time but it may be more prominent in my mind because I arrived in Mumbai for a wedding on 20th December 2012, roughly three to four days after the assault became public, and stayed over the weekend while the victim was still alive and undergoing treatment, and remember very clearly that there was blanket coverage and there was a sense of this very explicit exposure of a massive problem - namely a culture of rape in Indian society.
For those who aren't so au fait with the case - the girl was apparently on a date with a friend to see the Life of Pi and both were subsequently picked up after the film by a bus being driven out of hours by a gang of men, some of whom had been drinking.
Under the impression that this was a legitimate journey, shortly after getting on the bus the men confronted the couple, beat the male date senseless and then gang-raped the victim.
She suffered serious injuries from being bit, beaten and penetrated with an iron bar, leaving her with her intestines partly protruding from her body, some of which were thrown out of the bus, as were the two victims shortly afterwards.
The girl in question then managed to survive for a number of days before going in to cardiac arrest on an emergency flight to a specialist hospital in Singapore for trauma victims where she died, although medical opinion considered it remarkable that she even made it that far given her massive internal injuries.
Iplayer link here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05534p0/storyville-20142015-19-indias-daughter
The views of the defence lawyers are particularly abominable in my opinion - even more so than the perpetrator who apparently agreed to multiple interviews at significant length.
Fascinating and deeply disturbing film, particularly given the interviews with one of the participants who apparently views rape as par-for-the-course (although he claims that he was only the driver throughout of the bus in which the assault/rape took place, rather than directly involved) and, more shockingly, the opinions of his defence lawyers - one of whom says at one point that he would proudly immolate a daughter of his in front of his watching family if she engaged in dishonourable "pre-marital activities"...
Apparently the film has been banned in India by some court somewhere and is, according to the Beeb who may have commissioned it, already causing something of a brouhaha.
I think that this was a pretty big story globally at the time but it may be more prominent in my mind because I arrived in Mumbai for a wedding on 20th December 2012, roughly three to four days after the assault became public, and stayed over the weekend while the victim was still alive and undergoing treatment, and remember very clearly that there was blanket coverage and there was a sense of this very explicit exposure of a massive problem - namely a culture of rape in Indian society.
For those who aren't so au fait with the case - the girl was apparently on a date with a friend to see the Life of Pi and both were subsequently picked up after the film by a bus being driven out of hours by a gang of men, some of whom had been drinking.
Under the impression that this was a legitimate journey, shortly after getting on the bus the men confronted the couple, beat the male date senseless and then gang-raped the victim.
She suffered serious injuries from being bit, beaten and penetrated with an iron bar, leaving her with her intestines partly protruding from her body, some of which were thrown out of the bus, as were the two victims shortly afterwards.
The girl in question then managed to survive for a number of days before going in to cardiac arrest on an emergency flight to a specialist hospital in Singapore for trauma victims where she died, although medical opinion considered it remarkable that she even made it that far given her massive internal injuries.
Iplayer link here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05534p0/storyville-20142015-19-indias-daughter
The views of the defence lawyers are particularly abominable in my opinion - even more so than the perpetrator who apparently agreed to multiple interviews at significant length.
