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#PicksAndPiques #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #JohnsonThomas #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #Unwoman Cast: #KanakGarg #SarthakNarula #BhagwanTiwari #GirishPal #KaranMaan #PramodDeswal Director: #PallaviRoySharma Rating: * * * 1/2 Runtime: 115mins #AltairMedia @everyone #GunjanGoel #SusheelSharman #ShalmaliPrakash

An unconventional tragic love story involving a transperson and a heterosexual male, this film is not only unique in its storyline, its also a harbinger of what could be - given the skewed gender ratio that exists in some regions in the north of India where the girl child is killed off at birth. Debutant Director Pallavi Roy Sharma makes sensitivity and emotional vulnerability her mainstay in depicting the plight of the transperson caught in a malevolent male world of ego and patriarchy. All the actors deserve kudos for wonderful heartfelt performances - more so Kanak Garg as Sanwari (who is trapped in a spiral of exclusion and marginalisation) and Sarthak Narula as Bhanwar, (the conventional male as an unconventional lover) - both of whom are caught in the cross hairs of convention, conditioning, conservative beliefs and stigma relating to gender diversity. The film hits you hard with its expose of how Gender-diverse and trans people are subjected to levels of violence and discrimination that offend the human conscience. This is powerful stuff!!!