When the Music Changes

An Indian American girl who returns to India is subjected to a brutal gang rape topped up by ‘psychological rape’ by her condescending lover who agrees to accept her in spite of her ‘losing her honour’. The film is a brutal reminder that patriarchy and Rape Culture are 2 sides of the same coin. Rape has more to do with power play than sex. The movie questions the foundation of the paradigm which shockingly believes that a women’s honour can be destroyed when she is raped or violated. The rapists who want to take revenge against her boyfriend by raping her and the boyfriend who patronises her by ‘his portrayal ofmagnanimity of acceptance’, are the ugly faces of rape culture and patriarchy entrenched in a system which has subjugated women for centuries. (FiDi Talkies)