Oscars 2024: ‘To Kill A Tiger’ Made It to the Nominations for the Best Documentary Feature

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Oscars 2024: The documentary feature directed by the Indo-Canadian director Nisha Pahuja has made it to the list of Documentary features nominated for Oscars 2024. The documentary is a tale of resilience and the fight of a father-daughter duo against the society and legal system harboring shame and victim blaming of rape survivors. 

‘To Kill A Tiger’ nominated for Oscars 2024

The documentary was written and directed by Nisha Pahuja. The Indo-Canadian writer was born in Delhi, India and presently resides in Canada. The documentary has been nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at the 96th edition of the Oscars, as revealed by the list announced on Tuesday. 

The documentary has bagged the Amplify Voices Award for Best Canadian Feature Film at the TIFF 2022, and Best Documentary at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne of 2023.    

About ‘To Kill A Tiger’

The feature is a story of a minor rape survivor in India’s Jharkhand seeking justice from a flawed legal system and a rotten societal structure reeking with the culture of gendered sexual violence and repression of women. Ranjit is the father of the 13-year-old daughter who has been kidnapped and raped by three men in her village, who end up gaining more sympathy from the village people forcing the father to withdraw the charges from them.

The official synopsis of the documentary feature reads, “In To Kill a Tiger, Ranjit, a farmer in Jharkhand, India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the survivor of sexual assault. In India, where a rape is reported every 20 minutes and conviction rates are less than 30 percent, Ranjit’s decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.”

The documentary reflects on the culture of victim-blaming of rape survivors and the mental and social agony they go through after surviving a harrowing crime. In the microcosmic representation of Jharkhand, and a father-daughter duo the feature represents the social structure on a macro level deeply rooted in lauding perpetrators of crime because of the gender privilege they experience, and suppressing the ones raising their voice against the status quo, asking for justice and not subduing to the forces against them.    

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