Maya Maligai is is a 1980 Indian Tamil film, directed by Sajjan. The film stars Indrajit, Lailasree, Sanjay, Seema, Venki and Sangeetha in lead roles. The film had musical score by Agastya. more»

Based in the heart of Lahore, the story takes place in a house full of daughters, headed by the old and conservative Hashmutallah Khan. Grieved that he doesn't even have one son but 7 daughters, Hashmutallah rules with a dominating hand, repressing them at every step. It doesn't help that the eighth child born is a eunuch, who is saved from his father's wrath by a grieving mother and the sisters. They name him Saifi and make him lead a private life away from the eyes of society. In the midst of all this, Zainub - one of Khan's daughter has the courage to speak up and save her family from his irrational behaviour. Back in her home from a broken marriage, she realises to her horror that Saifi has been constantly molested in his place of work. It is now up to Zainub to raise her voice ad to speak up for her family, not just in front of her patriarchal father but also against all of society's perceptions as a whole. Bol questions the worth of a human being, be it a woman or a person born with a birth defect. It questions the authority of reproducing human beings into this world without taking responsibility of acknowledging their worth. more»

Manasa is a 2005 Indian Telugu film, directed by Vijayaanand G. V. and produced by Vijayaanand G. V.. The film stars Sai Kiran, Seema Malik, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Tirupati Prakash in lead roles. The film had musical score by Shivani. more»

The film is set in a slum in Ernakulam and focusses on a group of slum dwellers who are usually ignored in the ambitious blueprints of city developers. The protagonist of the film, Chakrapani (Sreenivasan), is a disabled beggar and also a small-time moneylender who lives in the slum. A drunkard, he spends most of the time quarrelling with his mother. He has an eye on Latha (Geethu Mohandas) who lives nearby with her two children, Siva and Malli, though she detests him. Latha, an asthmatic, works as a maid and dreams of a better future for her children. Another woman Vasanthi (Seema G. Nair) too lives in the slum with her two children and a drunkard of a husband (Manikandan) who is of no use to anybody and who keeps causing endless trouble to her and her children. Finally, desperation forces Chakrapani and Latha to unite and raise their voice in protest again the ignorance towards their slum. Chakrapani ends up as their leader. The story reaches its climax when the government takes steps to get rid of the slum in order to go on with developmental activities and the slum-dwellers find that they have nowhere to go. A JCB arrives on the scene and the local people protest as a union with Chakrapani in the forefront. But their pleas fall on deaf ears. more»

Bezubaan, as the name suggests, is the story of a woman (Reena Roy) who suffers silently; society and family pressures effectively stifling any protest she might have voiced. In the process, she gets blackmailed by an unscruplous photographer who has pictures of her and her lover (Raj Kiran) taken before her marriage. Reena's husband (Shashi Kapoor) is a trusting, humane person who loves his wife very much and can't understand why she needs as much money as she does. But the truth is eventually revealed and even the meek turn violent under pressure when emotions suppressed become uncontrollable. What will Reena do? more»