BETI BACHAO

Directed by: Rajkumar Bhan

With Elsa Zylberstein (Gabrielle) / Benno Fürmann (Paul) / Tannishtha Chatterjee (Madhu)

Coproduction IMAGEPOOL / AVIVA Films. 

Adopted at the age of six by a European couple, Nir returns to India for her 18th birthday. She seeks to meet Madhu, her biological mother, who is serving a life sentence for reasons unknown to anyone.

Through three visits to the prison parlor, the truth finally emerges. Madhu recounts her past: two forced abortions and a third pregnancy threatened by her in-laws upon discovering she was expecting a girl. Betrayed by her own family and rejected by the police, Madhu turned to the goddess Kali to protect her child. In an act of radical justice, she killed her in-laws before surrendering, choosing prison as the only safe haven to bring Nir into the world.

Shattered by this sacrifice, Nir attempts to free her mother. But Madhu refuses; she has found her place behind bars, where she now devotes her life to helping other inmates. Bound by this tragic past, mother and daughter make a promise: never to forget one another again.

In development