Mukti

In an unreal real world, a three-year-old girl is murdered. The death of an innocent is not the problem, but the method of the murder is. ‘Dhatura’ killing is still a widely accepted norm, but killing by stone poses questions, maybe because it questions the conscience of the people and the system? The loud and bloody murder is for all to see, unlike stifling the newborn baby girls cries with a poisonous fruit. Arresting the killer of this toddler would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Because every villager believes that girls are a curse. Every villager, except one woman, Roshna. Almost numb with the atrocities, she still fights for her sole daughter’s life. But can she change the convoluted mindsets of people even after finding the killer?
This film is inspired by the cruel ‘Dhatura and Dhoodh Pethi Pratha’, a ritual where the girl child is given a poisonous fruit at birth and drowned in a vessel filled with milk and water, only because she is a girl. Devda, a village in Rajasthan had no girl child for many years.

Directed by Neha Srivastava (India, United States)