Review of India's Daughter (2015) by Deepak M — 14 Dec 2015

Leslie Udwin's documentary "India's Daughter" is a dispassionate re-telling of events related to a brutal crime, which provoked a brief period of grass-roots upheaval in many cities of India.

The re-telling of the events is interspersed with interviews of a perpetrator, family and friends of both the victim and the perpetrators, and representatives of the police, government, and civil society.

Apart from the embarrassment caused by the access the filmmaker gained to a convict on death row, I could not think of any other reason why this film was banned in India. My only criticism is of the director's avoidable decision to show the faces of the minor children of the perpetrators.

[Available for streaming in the US, on PBS].