Give me my pajamas and let me sink into my cozy Lazy Boy recliner to watch the woes, physical and mental suffering and horrifying life of the Indian helpless women and children of sex trade. Of course it is an ‘artwork’ and a ‘wonderful job’ by “Zane Briski.”
It is a known fact that everybody else makes a lot of profit by using the women and children who are involved “In this line.” So many things happen “in this line” and one of them was figured out by smart Zane Briski and she nicely ‘use it’ to get to the red carpet and proudly hold the Oscar in her two hands while the children’s hands back in brothels were still empty.
This film is based on a true story. It is not a story of the past only bit true to life it is the true story of past, present and future. It is the store of misery and cruelty of those women and children that made many people millions. I am not sure what would be the “actual payment” to the “actors” of this movie before or after Oscar.
I wonder what change would have occurred in the lives of the children of brothels. How many of these children were actually removed and sent to boarding schools? Have any women been helped?
This is not the first time people have used their smart ideas to take advantage of these peoples lives of misery and made millions out of it. It has been done before many times and perhaps will continue in the future too.
Some time ago there was another good subject “The Untouchables of India.” A lot was written and shown about the untouchables of India; the story was used of the “Dalits” many times. What has changed since then? If you want to see the real situation then you will have to go to Bihar which is the second largest state having millions of people called “Scheduled Castes”.
Zane Briski had to use children as her ‘subject’ not because she wanted to improve the lives of these children or their parents but because she will not be allowed to shoot on ‘actual sites’ which are deep inside the actual red-light area of Sonagchi in Calcutta. None of the so called ‘photographers’ will be welcome there because those ‘real actors’ would not want these photographers to use their lives to make millions.
What is the motive of this movie? Who is going to benefit from it most? The brain behind this movie was in fact unable to get into the actual sites. That is why these children were used to go and get the photographs of those ‘hard to reach’ areas which are only glimpses of the actual condition deep inside the red-light area.
In the western world if a small corporation is doing business in a certain community – it will be expected that the corporation must contribute to enhance the lives of people living in the community. Hopefully producers of this film has done something good ‘for this red-light community’ which was used to make this profitable film?
“Born into Brothels” will become just another movie in our DVD collection in the western homes. Those women will continue “in their line of business” to feed their children. I wonder if Zane know how many men must a woman serve before she will be able to earn enough to feed her family. What are these women and children face in reality on day-to-day basis?
Well done Zane Briski – good job. I hope it has not only helped you but also those people who helped you. You are able to do this movie because of the children who are “born into brothels”. Well done Zane Briski – well done. May God help you more so that you may get more such opportunities to help these ‘less fortunate?’ Hope with your help the children who are “BORN INTO BROTHELS” wouldn’t at least “DIE INTO BROTHELS”.
