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Can always trust Konkona to deliver: Aparna Sen
Updated On: 08 November, 2021 07:19 AM IST | Mumbai | Uma Ramasubramanian
Stating that Konkona was obvious choice to lead The Rapist, National Award-winner Aparna says film probes what leads men to commit the heinous crime
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Aparna Sen was often haunted by a question: What is it that turns a man into a rapist? Her pursuit for an answer led her to make The Rapist, starring Konkona Sen Sharma and Arjun Rampal. “The film raises several questions. What turns a man into a rapist? Because nobody is born as one! Is it his environment, or his insecurities? Rape is about power and not about sex. Could the need to assert power be because in a [patriarchal] society, men feel insecure as more women become successful? Is it because men know they can get away with rape as even now, so many women remain silent out of shame? I don’t know the answer myself,” begins Sen.
The director has examined the subject by telling the story of three individuals whose lives change overnight due to the violent sexual crime. “I haven’t justified rape, nor have I taken any sides. I haven’t offered any solutions because I don’t know what they are. I’ve tried to look into the psyches of these three people and expose the naked persons underneath. I’ve addressed the fact of shaming and humiliating the survivor, and the trauma that the survivor goes through.”
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