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Cleofas Tyrance
Sur, a freshman from a rather strict and traditional family who run a small tavern, is volunteering as a web designer for a university theatre group. As the story begins, the premiere of the group is a huge success and the faculty promises to allow them to travel to Japan for an international competition. Sur is invited to a party at the house of Rama, a rather rich kid who is also in charge of the sets for the theater, and decides to go, despite the protests of her father. Sur has a good time, but also decides to drink for the first time. The next time she gains consciousness she has just woken up and is late for an important meeting for her scholarship. Her father is enraged by her behaviour, but even worse, after a number of drunk selfies from the party circulate online, she loses her scholarship for bringing disgrace to the faculty. Sur asks for help from a childhood friend, Amin, who works and lives at the campus as a photocopier, and confronts the leader of the theater group in her effort to find exactly what happened the previous night. Her father, however, wants her to just apologize and beg to get her scholarship back, while the police are not particularly helpful. Eventually, a much bigger case is revealed, while another girl from her class, Lutesha, who quit the theatre group some time ago, also plays a significant role.
Wregas Bhatuneja directs and co-signs the script (along Henricus Pria) of a whodunit crime thriller, which, essentially, functions as the base for a number of sociopolitical comments. In that fashion, the assault aspect which is eventually revealed to have taken place extends to comments on the inequalities between the rich and the poor, the strictness of the Islamic families and the patriarchy that dominates them, and the suffocating struggles a youth like Sur faces in this setting as a poor girl from a Muslim family fighting against the system. At the same time, and on a positive note, the film also shows a ray of hope, by highlighting the presence of anti-rape activists and the centers they run, as much as the benefits of going against patriarchy.
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