The conversation the film invokes is compelling, poignant, and handled with the utmost sensitivity.
At the film’s core is the urgent demand for the rights and safety of India’s domestic workers. Though their official registered number within the workforce is four million, the film asserts them to be somewhere around 80 million unofficially. While the #MeToo movement, also the source of the film’s title, might have remained confined mostly to the urban, English-speaking upper class, the film and the movement it speaks of, casts a much-needed wider net to talk about workplace harassment for all who work as domestic help in Indian households.
The message is driven home further by drawing attention to the power and reach of theater that is not only capable of transforming its audiences but also the performers. The result, thus, presented is a well-rounded whole that is assertive, lucid, and impactful in the message it delivers.
Read LessAt the film’s core is the urgent demand for the rights and safety of India’s domestic workers. Though their official registered number within the workforce is four million, the film asserts them to be somewhere around 80 million unofficially. While the #MeToo movement, also the source of the film’s title, might have remained confined mostly to the urban, English-speaking upper class, the film and the movement it speaks of, casts a much-needed wider net to talk about workplace harassment for all who work as domestic help in Indian households.
The message is driven home further by drawing attention to the power and reach of theater that is not only capable of transforming its audiences but also the performers. The result, thus, presented is a well-rounded whole that is assertive, lucid, and impactful in the message it delivers.
