Review of The World Before Her (2012) by Murali B — 24 Feb 2014

The filmmaker's focus seems to be contrasting a group of self-confident young women from cities, who are aspiring for a Miss India crown & and another group of young women who are misguided, brain-washed and even controlled by self-loathing, socially conservative, religious fundamentalists! Obviously it is easy to sensationalize, but I think a wider perspective would have made this more appealing.

This is a missed opportunity to get candid views on the record, of a wider section of young women, aspiring to be artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, public servants, engineers and administrators, about what it means to live in this century and the promise of the future.

The subcontinent is also home to a growing number of women who are not only educated in English schools, but lived in cosmopolitan cities around the world; There is a very stark contrast between these women and those from traditional and provincial backgrounds. Now that contrast would be a more interesting and an uplifting perspective to present, not just to the western audience.