AJJI, PLAYED BY Sushama Deshpande, a grandmother-in-mourning, is spying on Vilasrao Dhavle (Abhishek Banerjee), the man who raped her 10-year-old granddaughter Manda (Sharvani Suryavanshi) not too long ago. We know what’s coming next, and yet, Ajji and the audience are united in their horror even as Dhavle tears the doll’s arms out and begins to hump, climaxing shortly after.ĭhavle has just acquired a humanoid sex doll and the director takes pains to convey depravity through his eyes and body language. Listen to my podcast: AdultingWithJoycePring Media Personality Philippines Joined October 2009 1,088 Following 329. This man deserves death and she will be his executioner. Servant of the Risen King TV Presenter, Podcast Host, Speaker, and Content Creator. This was perhaps the most talked-about scene from Devashish Makhija’s Ajji, a rape-revenge drama that released recently. Remarkably, Ajji was the fifth Bollywood release of 2017 within the rape-revenge genre, the others being Kaabil (out in January, starring Hrithik Roshan), Maatr (April, Raveena Tandon), Mom (July, Sridevi) and Bhoomi (September, Sanjay Dutt). It feels like a throwback to the 80s and 90s, an era that saw this sub-genre enjoying an equally prolific run-this includes films like Insaf Ka Tarazu (a 1980 remake of the 1976 Anne Bancroft-starrer Lipstick), Pratighaat (1987), Kali Ganga (1990), Zakhmi Aurat (1988), Sherni (1988) and famously, Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen (1994), which raised the stakes in terms of the brutality and graphic details associated with onscreen rape.įittingly, Dutt, Tandon and Sridevi, who debuted as part of Bollywood’s brat pack in the earlier epoch, are now playing grizzled parents out to avenge their raped children. Sridevi, for instance, played a young, bike-riding, leather-clad vigilante in Sherni- and a middle-aged, mild-mannered schoolteacher in Mom, roused to violence after her stepdaughter is raped. In Jaago (2004), Tandon played a young mother who stabs and kills one of her 10-year-old daughter’s rapists. Thirteen years later, Maatr has her playing a school teacher-surely a nod towards the infiltration of children’s safe spaces-in her forties, another unlikely vigilante, like Sridevi’s character in Mom. The 80s’ spurt of Bollywood rape-revenge films could be read as a response to some real-life rape cases of the time that were covered widely by Indian newspapers. The most notorious among these was the 1972 Mathura rape case, wherein an underage Adivasi girl (different accounts put her at 14-16 at the time) called Mathura was allegedly raped by two policemen on the premises of the Desai Ganj police station in Chandrapur district, Maharashtra.
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