Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
With extraordinary access, Pahuja illuminates extraordinary conflicts and contradictions facing modern girls in a country even less ready for them than ours.
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Canada · 2012
1h 30m
Director Nisha Pahuja
Starring Pooja Chopra, Ankita Shorey, Ruhi Singh, Prachi Trivedi
Genre Documentary
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Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls. The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the country's modern history.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
With extraordinary access, Pahuja illuminates extraordinary conflicts and contradictions facing modern girls in a country even less ready for them than ours.
As a conversation starter, The World Before Her gets the job done. By virtue of the topic and interviews, Pahuja showcases plenty of tensions between old world values and idealistic goals. That's hardly enough to make its narrative persistently alluring or emotionally sound.
While much of The World Before Her speaks to global womanhood, other aspects are more specific to India, but that’s what gives the film much of its life and spark.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Liam Lacey
A thought-provoking film that examines women’s limited choices in a patriarchal country reeling from the contradictions of rapid modernization.
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