G Kutta Se

<p>is the story of people who follow the desires of their hearts and the consequences that befall them for doing so. According to director Rahul Dahiya the genesis of this film traces back to 2012 when he learned of an in his mother’s village Ikkas in where a young girl was electrocuted by her family members for being in love with someone. The dead girl sitting up in a bullock cart, while her family members pretended everything is normal, was disturbing. I wished to be a filmmaker and wondered what can be more important than talking about this. — Rahul Dahiya on the incident that sparked the idea of making this film. The director believes that there is a lot of hypocrisy surrounding the concepts of love, desire and honour and through his film he wanted to bring it out in the open and show everyone that it is impossible for anyone to curb their natural instincts. The director says that, “My movie is more about parents and other members of a family taking the drastic step of killing a girl for falling in love. It was more important for me to show that there is no button to switch off their attraction towards the opposite sex.” Most of the cast members in are non actors and were selected after several rounds of auditions held in Delhi, Chandigarh and Haryana. The director Rahul Dahiya says that after the selection process was over, “For more than a month, the cast rehearsed together in Delhi — trying to get the accent and nuances right”. had its world premiere at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival (CSAFF) on 4 October 2015. was also screened at the 16th Annual on 12 May 2016. The release of got delayed in India as the refused to certify the movie on the grounds that the language and visuals of the film were unsuitable for the viewers. After refusal by , the makers of the film approached who decided to give the movie an A certificate but also asked for a few changes to be made in the movie. Finally the movie got released on 16 June 2017 on 40 screens all over India. After the trailer for the film was launched on on 17 May 2017, several videos and messages were posted on social media issuing threats to harm the people associated with the film. The reason for this hostility was the way girls from had been portrayed in the movie and a dialogue that was later removed from the film. The soundtrack of consists of two songs composed by Anjo John the lyrics of which were written by Rahul Dahiya and Danish Raza. Reza Noorani of gave the film a rating of 3 out of 5 and said that, “The film does have the potential to overwhelm you, given its heavy subject matter. Still, the filmmaker keeps you engrossed by using humour, which is dark and bleak just like the setting of the film.” Shubhra Gupta of gave the film a rating of 3 out of 5 and said that, “Dahiya’s gut-wrenching debut, with its cast of non-professional actors, has an urgent docu-feature feel. It is powerful because it shows rather than tells.” Rahul Desai of gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and said that the movie is a “kind of unrelenting, yet disturbingly clinical kick to the guts. We don’t just double over, but awkwardly keel over in slow motion.” of complimented the movie by saying that, “G Kutta Se is one of the most relentlessly horrifying films one has seen of late—from the first frame to the last—primarily because it presents the patriarchal reality of Haryana in an absolutely stark, straightforward and unadorned way.” Suparna Sharma of gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and said that, “Debutant writer-director Rahul Dahiya’s is a brutal film that is focused on making us culpable voyeurs to crimes we read about with stunning regularity and yet pretend these are tales from another time, another dimension.” The critic also praised the acting performances of all actors saying that, “The acting in could not have been more organic, real. Each and everyone is superb.” Uday Bhatia of reviewed the film saying that, “this is a sharp, pitiless look at a society governed by feudal minds overly concerned with women’s honour while utterly dismissive of their rights.” praised the film saying that, “This film is brilliantly crafted and it tells a visceral and disturbing story. It’s definitely one of the most intense and relevant films of the year.” and gave the film a rating of 4 out of 5. Anna MM Vetticad of First Post gave the film a rating of 4 out of 5 and said that, “Far from downplaying the seriousness of the subject at hand, Dahiya’s matter-of-fact storytelling style and Sachin Kabir’s unobtrusive cinematography have the effect of further underlining the blazing intensity of their theme, so that every new development comes as a punch in the gut.” The critic also praised the acting performances in the film specially Rajveer Singh and Neha Chauhan saying that, “Both deliver flawless performances”. Letty Mariam Abraham of gave the film a rating of 3.5 out of 5 and said that, “The film rings alarm bells about the rise in honour killings, while leaving you unsettled. A must watch film, where the script more than makes up for the lack of stars.” gave the film a rating of 4.5 out of 5 and said that, ” takes an unflinching, long and hard look at tradition-sanctioned violence against women making it one of the darkest films in living memory. Dahiya succeeds in making every episode seem so real and palpable, you will get the feeling of being there, though you would often wish you weren’t.”</p>