Mehta Film wakes Canadians up to Violence Against Women
Canada needs a “wake-up call” to the scourge of violence against women, say senators Ratna Omidvar and Mobina Jaffer.
The two senators hosted a screening of The Anatomy of Violence — the latest film by the internationally-acclaimed Deepa Mehta, director of two Oscar-nominated films — on Parliament Hill on February 15.
The film revolves around the 2012 Delhi, India gang rape in which Jyoti Singh, a 23-year-old Indian woman who was studying physiotherapy, was brutally assaulted and raped on a moving bus by six men, over the course of 84 minutes, suffering injuries that led to her death.
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