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7.1/10   185 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Emmanuel Pappas (writer)
Digvijay Singh (writer)
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Release Date:
16 January 2002 (Belgium) more
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Tagline:
A child's innocence shattered by tradition.
Plot:
MAYA is a coming of age story set against an outlawed brutal practice of ritual rape still occurring in some parts of India. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations more
User Reviews:
Beautiful and shocking more (12 total)

Cast

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Anant Nag ... Arun
Mita Vasisht ... Lakshmi
Nitya Shetty ... Maya
Nikhil Yadav ... Sanjay
Veerendra Saxena ... Pujari
Mukesh Bhatt ... Ganesh
Shilpa Navalkar ... Mridu
Shreechand Makhija ... Candyman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bhushan Dhupkar ... Guri
Abhichandra Jella ... Vivek
P.K. Sharma ... Temple Priest (1)
Prasad Sharma ... Temple Priest (2)
Shankar Sharma ... Temple Priest (3)
Girish Singh ... Raju
Sasidhar Valluri ... Butcher
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105 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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5 out of 7 people found the following review useful.
Beautiful and shocking, 20 October 2002
10/10
Author: rpersad from Toronto

This movie is really split in two. The first half is the "innocent kids enjoying their youth" section, and the other half is the "holy samosoa! Did they just do what I think they just did?" section.

The first half I thouroughly enjoyed cause it reminded me of when I was a lil boy growing up in Trinidad, and Toronto. The beautiful cinematography, and bright sunshiney, summerey, goodness, made me feel feel like I really was 12 years old again.

The second half is totaly different, as MAYA has her innocence taken, by way of a (horrible) traditional comming-of-age tradition. The movie gets dark in a hurry, and the sunshiney goodness, is replaced with the hard realities of life.

Overal, this movie made me think of two main things:

1- Being a kid was soooo much frackin fun. Growing up sucks.

2- Religion is a dangerous thing.

7.5/10

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