Director : Nakul Sawhney
Doc/ India/ Hindustani, Haryanvi, English/2012/63
Synopsis: Immoral Daughters is about five young Jat women who dared to resist. through their stories. The film shows their struggle to take on the powerful Khaps and confront "honour" crimes, injustice and social boycotts. The film is intercut with the viewpoint of the Khap leaders who believe ‘our "asabhyabetiyan", (immoral daughters) imagine
equality like animals and want our age-old customs to die out’. The Khaps, who epitomize the patriarchal and casteist pillars of a feudal society oppose "self-choice" marriages and deny young people the right to love. The film exposes these fissures, hypocrisy and violence in a supposedly modern and democratic India.
The crew: Immoral Daughters
Camera: Deval Samanta
Editing: Sameera Jain
Sound: Location Sound- Vinit D’Souza
Sound Design-Vinit D’Souza, Asheesh Pandya, Sameera Jain
Brief bio-filmography: Nakul Singh Sawhney directed his first film in 2005, "With a Little Help From My Friends" which won the award for the second best film at the"60 seconds to Fame" film festival in Chennai. He then did a course in TV direction at FTII, Pune in 2005-2006. After completing his course he made a feature length documentary on the history of the working class movement of Chheharta, Amritsar called, "Once Upon a Time in Chheharta". Nakul was actively doing theatre and two plays that he co-directed won a multitude of awards including best play and best director.
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