The BBC production India’s Daughter has been generally seen in the country as “a fake film” (to quote Nirbhaya’s male friend who was with her that fateful night and suffered a fearful beating).
"The documentary is unbalanced as the victim's viewpoint is missing,” Avanindra Pandey told IBN Live. “The facts are hidden and the content is fake.”
Supporting the government’s decision to ban the film, he said “the documentary is far from truth."
As with almost every Indian who has watched the film, he found the jailhouse interview with the rapist offensive.
"A controversy was created unnecessarily and was sensationalized,” he told IBN. “The documentary made fun of emotions and questioned the law and order situation in our country."
Leslee Udwin, the movie’s director has dodged that charge in numerous interviews.
For instance, in answer to a specific question about that by The Hindu she complimented Prime Minister Modi and then added, “All I wanted was to say to the world is that India led by example, now follow India’s lead. This was the point of my film and campaign.”
She has also sought to pass herself off as the “world-renowned” winner of “a British Oscar” and thus presumably beyond question.
In the same grand vein she has pushed the rather maniacal notion that by banning her film India “committed international suicide.”
Indian feminists have generally not taken too kindly to the “White woman’s burden of rape in India” and even usually conservative voices have noted the hypocrisy of the whole exercise.
One retired diplomat circulated reports from the British Press that on average there were about 35 rapes a week in London taxi cabs.
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