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Shame (2006) -- A tribal council in a remote village sentences a Pakistani woman to gang rape in retaliation for an alleged crime by her brother. Her courageous stand against the tribal council and the local police helps her to launch a legal and social revolution.

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In modern Pakistan, Ghulam Fareed lives a poor lifestyle in Meerwala along with his daughter, Mukhtaran Mai and son... more | add synopsis
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Naseem Akhtar ... Herself
Marie Antoinette ... Magdalena
Shaukat Aziz ... Himself - Pakistani Prime Minister
Ghulam Fareed ... Mukhtaran's dad
Shaqoor G. Fareed ... Himself
Nicholas Kristof ... Himself (as Kristof D. Nicholas)
Mukhtaran Mai ... Herself
Taj Mashtoi ... Herself - Mother of accused
Mohammed Naqvi ... Himself
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Canada:95 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Important civil rights case, beautifully portrayed, 19 April 2007
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Author: Dilip Barman (barman@jhu.edu) from Durham, NC (USA)

"Shame" is about Mukhtaran Mai and her shocking story that ends with much promise. In 2002, the 30-year-old woman from Meerwala, a remote Pakistani village, was sentenced by the tribal council to be raped by a group of men in retaliation for an alleged crime that her brother had committed. With no police presence in the village and with the feudal precedent of self-victimization or suicide, she musters the courage to travel to town to file a police case, in spite of death threats.

Her case attracts governmental and then international press and human rights attention, and results in her being praised with awards for bravery and travel abroad to speak, as well as being given a handsome amount of money with which she builds the village's first school. I recommend this film not just for its sensitive treatment of the matter and the inspiring story of Mukhtaran Mai, but also because of the beautiful cinematography that paints, at times, a welcome and almost surrealistically dreamy veneer on a chilling episode.

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