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A documentary that explores the complex ways in which women understand and experience motherhood. The key question it raises is that is motherhood always a ‘natural’ precondition towards the fulfillment of a woman’s subjectivity? A package that tends to fix the role of women as ‘producers’ in the given cultural context. The film explores this juncture to etch out individual and diverse desires of women and the ways in which they relate to being mothers or its absence.
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The film travels to Bombay, Delhi, Benares and Shillong, going back in time to reveal how the current crisis of sex ratios had been foretold by those on the forefront of the campaigns against sex determination and pre-selection. It assesses government initiatives, looks beyond the rhetoric, and uses the lens of culture to explore common beliefs about daughters and sons within the family, men and women in society.
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