Indian Short Film Inspired By Tribal Sex Workers In Consideration For Oscars

Key Facts

• The fact that it all started with a desperate measure to combat mass unemployment curtailed on the Banchhada tribe by the British Raj officers as a punishment for killing a British sepoy by one of the tribals, makes a point at how deep set the trade which has now become a tradition.
• Banchhada is in fact not the only tribe to have taken up this as an accepted occupation.
• The Nat community in UP was listed under the Criminal Tribes Act, of 1871 by the Britishers compelled their women to end up with prostitution as the only source of livelihood.
• In his research preceding the film, Singh also mentions that some of these tribal girls are raped by their family members such as fathers, uncles and brothers before selling them off to a brothel.

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