Our Time

Four desperate countryside girls – longingfor a new life in the cosmopolitan city – getfooled into the dark world of human trafficking.Critically acclaimed Indian director BappadityaBandopadhyay’s latest feature about humandisplacement follows in the footsteps of hisearlier film “Barbed Wire”. Desperate lifecircumstances lead the girls to Ratana, theagent who lures them to join him for a betterlife in an unknown city. The girls lose themselvesin the glitter and glamour of the dreamlikenightlife that the city offers: their dreamschange and soon the color of money is all thatmatters. “Our Time” challenges several Indiancinematic taboos and the Bengali dialoguecriticizing the military resulted in censor trims,but a gruesome abortion scene at the jungledoctor’sclinic remains. Modern society’s view of what has cynically been called “the world’soldest profession” in order to legitimate thebuying of other’s bodies is dramatized in thiscontroversial feature that might be described asBollywood’s answer to Swedish director LukasMoodysson’s “Lilja 4-ever”.