Rape of the Bloke!

The B-town has had a lot of movies with female protagonists playing characters who have been through the trauma of rape. They have done their bit to put the dog’s tail of our society through a straight pole thinking it would somehow, with their portrayal of what the aftermath of such a heinous act is, change people and get them to think. Whether or not it has really helped the cause… we have no way of telling.

Three new-age directors however, have set their eyes on a new impending social evil we’re badgered with - men getting raped. Manish Gupta’s Hostel looks into the life of a college student who gets raped. The idea stemmed from his conversation with an engineering student who was raped. Manish says the gloom of death that he saw on the guy’s face when confronted with the question about whether he was raped was what triggered Hostel. The censors too have shown this bold movie a green signal and passed it without a snip.

Saurabh Gupta’s It’s a Man’s World, takes a look at male prostitution and in the directors words will try to educate people about how these people are humans after too and not commodities. Sudipto Chattopadhyay in his movie Pankh talks about a young boy who has grown up playing female characters in movies and how this has affected his personality in a way that he is utterly gender confused.

Looks like all of them have a very serious issue to convey. Now how many item songs they need to get this through is what remains to be seen…