Freida Pinto can
breathe a sigh of relief. Her Indian debut is more or less ensured now.
British director Michael Winterbottom’s long-delayed Trishna is finally
been readied for release in July in as many as six Indian languages
including Hindi, Marwari, Punjabi and Tamil.
But the release comes with a rider. The notoriously violent
love-making scenes would be seriously toned-down even before they film
is submitted to the Indian censor board.
Says a source very close to the project, “The steamy love-making
scenes are violent aggressive and sadistic . They show Riz Khan trying
to assert his masculinity and socio-economic superiority over Freida’s
character by subjugating her sexually. These scenes won’t be accepted in
this country in today’s social climate demanding better safety and more
equal rights for women.We’ve decided to tone down the scenes of brutal
love-making.”
Adds the film’s producer Sunil Bohra, “Trishna is actually a very
poignant story. The Thomas Hardy novel Tess on whom it is based is very
Indian at heart.I want to pitch it as a very Indian film about a young
Rajasthani girl’s struggle for survival in a male-dominated society.”
So out goes the steamy scenes or at least much of it.
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