| INDIA CABARET |
A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY
MIRA NAIR (India) |
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| 16 mm - 58 minutes - Color |
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| 1985 |
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THE STORY
"India Cabaret" is a documentary film that explores the stereotypes of the "respectable" woman and the "polluted" woman in Indian society. The main characters of the film do not conform to the prototype of the chaste, submissive, self-sacrificing figure of the Indian wife and mother: they are cabaret dancers, whose marginal existence in Indian society becomes a vehicle for the film's examination of Indian values and some of its inherent contradictions. Adopting an unsentimental and questioning approach, the film expresses some of the tensions and hopes of individuals whose lives fall outside the boundaries of acceptability established by a society's stringent moral codes.
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