''Anatomy of Violence'' is a Canadian drama film which premiered at the

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. Directed by Toronto-based filmmaker

Deepa Mehta Deepa Mehta, (; born 1 January 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996 film), ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998), and ''Water (2005 film), Water'' (2005 ...

, the film explores the root causes leading up to the

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incident. The film's script was created by a group of actors including Vansh Bhardwaj, Tia Bhatia, Janki Bisht and

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, through

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exercises based on the relatively few snippets of known information about the perpetrators of the attack."Anatomy of Violence examines the men involved in the Delhi attack"
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'', 8 September 2016. Mehta chose to pursue a significant departure from her usual filmmaking style, in part because of the uncharacteristically poor reviews that greeted her previous film ''

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''.

Plot

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in 2012, a group of six guys raped a young woman and beat her male friend up in a moving bus. On a fictitious reenactment of the perpetrators' life, eleven actors worked together.

Cast

* Vansh Bhardwaj * Janki Bisht * Mukti Ravi Das * Ramanjit Kaur *

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* Tia Bhatia *

* Suman Jha * Mahesh Saini * Zorawar Shukla

Awards

Reception

* Mehta's documentary approach eventually catches up with actual broadcast material, but not enough to excuse the irresponsible use of point-and-shoot cameras that flattens the film's narrative and visual richness. * Formally and philosophically, Anatomy of Violence is the biggest gamble of Mehta's career since it foresees uncharted territory for cinema. Is it a docudrama, mockumentary, hybrid, or true crime film? All of these and none of them make up the anatomy of violence. It's Mehta-fiction, to be precise.

References

External links

* 2016 films 2010s Hindi-language films Canadian drama films Films directed by Deepa Mehta 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub