Tara (2013)

Merely a few hundred kilometers away from the hustle and bustle of the fanatically fast paced Mumbai city lies the deceptively sleepy village of Tanda. A resident of this village is the lovely Tara, a young girl who is seemingly content with her confined life, and very much in love with her liquor-maker husband. However, when the beautiful protagonist’s seemingly mundane existence parts ways to reveal the unspoken realities of exploitation and darkness enveloping the village, she leads the villagers in their quest for survival, only to realize that she is up against something she may not be prepared to fight against - prejudice. The young woman who bravely stood up for the whole community finds herself cruelly alienated in her most vulnerable moment. Ultimately, after a series of gut wrenching experiences, she has to make a choice. Based on disturbingly common realities of Indian villages, this powerful story of self-discovery transcends the original theme of tribal strife to raise a universal question - can you always choose freedom and self-respect over social acceptance?