NEW YORK – A rape documentary banned by the Indian government has received its U.S. premiere at a star-studded New York event including Meryl Streep.
Monday’s screening of India’s Daughter at Baruch College started with a candlelight vigil honouring the medical student who died after being gang-raped on a bus in 2012.
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Streep told a packed auditorium victim Jyoti Singh was not only India’s daughter. Streep says “she’s our daughter, too.”
The documentary was directed by British filmmaker Leslee Udwin, herself a rape victim. Its U.S. premiere follows a week of controversy in India.
The uproar focuses on comments by one of the six rapists interviewed for the film. He blamed the victim for taking a bus late in the evening.
“India’s Daughter” was first shown on a BBC channel last week.
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