By Santanu Ganguly, Mumbai: “Aaj Ki Freedom” is a film based on true incident of gang rape, hence the film is fiction. “Aaj Ki Freedom” is directed by South director Don Goutham. He is in the media from past 15 years and primarily a Cinematographer and Ad Film Maker. He has done 150 ad-films, short films, documentaries and films. He made films like RDX and Devadasiyin Kadhai, a south film with Monica Bedi and Mukesh Rishi.
His latest venture “Aaj Ki Freedom” is in three languages –Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. He started shooting of this film which is based on gang rape in last November but after the incident of 16 December, he made some changes to his original script and took that bus part. He has also shown the very unfortunate and real incident of gang rape happened in a village of South India where a poor girl had been raped for six days.
In “Aaj Ki Freedom” the main character is played by actress Ray from south. The role of his friend was played by Vishvesh. The other star casts of the film are Aashish as doctor, Yash as main villain, Zahid as juvenile, and Naiyar Jafri as lawyer.
Ray said, “It was not an easy role. Girls cannot even think about these kinds of incidents. Every girl should know how to defence herself. They cannot trust anybody.”
Director Don Goutham said, “Since all my films are women oriented subjects which are connected with life even this film is based on the subject of atrocities committed on girls/women such as the heinous crime of rape or child abuse.” He also said, “Today we are already 1 decade into the 21st century but our actions belie us and are not keeping pace with the developments around and we let our carnal desires to take shape into action under various garbs such as maybe under the influence of alcohol.”
Don said, “Every girl is a daughter and everywoman is a mother but if she is found alone and in the form of a stranger everybody wants to objectify and use her as an object of pleasure.”
“The Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi had once said when the moment comes when a woman/girl can walk alone anywhere in the middle of the night without the fear of any harm that day we would achieve true freedom. Today we witness that a girl who is not even alone and at 9.30 pm within the bustling metropolis is abducted and gang-raped. Is this the freedom, he was looking for? Hence the film Aaj Ki Freedom,” he also added.
His latest venture “Aaj Ki Freedom” is in three languages –Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. He started shooting of this film which is based on gang rape in last November but after the incident of 16 December, he made some changes to his original script and took that bus part. He has also shown the very unfortunate and real incident of gang rape happened in a village of South India where a poor girl had been raped for six days.
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In “Aaj Ki Freedom” the main character is played by actress Ray from south. The role of his friend was played by Vishvesh. The other star casts of the film are Aashish as doctor, Yash as main villain, Zahid as juvenile, and Naiyar Jafri as lawyer.
Ray said, “It was not an easy role. Girls cannot even think about these kinds of incidents. Every girl should know how to defence herself. They cannot trust anybody.”
Director Don Goutham said, “Since all my films are women oriented subjects which are connected with life even this film is based on the subject of atrocities committed on girls/women such as the heinous crime of rape or child abuse.” He also said, “Today we are already 1 decade into the 21st century but our actions belie us and are not keeping pace with the developments around and we let our carnal desires to take shape into action under various garbs such as maybe under the influence of alcohol.”
Don said, “Every girl is a daughter and everywoman is a mother but if she is found alone and in the form of a stranger everybody wants to objectify and use her as an object of pleasure.”
“The Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi had once said when the moment comes when a woman/girl can walk alone anywhere in the middle of the night without the fear of any harm that day we would achieve true freedom. Today we witness that a girl who is not even alone and at 9.30 pm within the bustling metropolis is abducted and gang-raped. Is this the freedom, he was looking for? Hence the film Aaj Ki Freedom,” he also added.
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