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written and directed by Nisha Pahuja and produced by Toronto's Emmy Award winning Storyline Entertainment. The film explores the complex and conflicting environment for young girls in

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by profiling two young women participating in two very different types of

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— Ruhi Singh, who aspires to become

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, and Prachi Trivedi, a

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with the

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. The film was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story in 2014. It also won the awards for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the 2012 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and Best Documentary Feature at the 2012

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, and was a nominee for Best Feature Length Documentary at the

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. The

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in 2012 gave the film a Special Jury Mention. On June 6, 2014, the film was released to widespread critical acclaim in India, the country it depicts, with the help of filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. A critic for

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called it "one of the most important, skillfully made and powerfully provocative films to come in a long time."

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