A strong teaser of Divya Dutta starrer Chiraiya has been unveiled on Friday, drawing questions on “one of the crucial deeply normalised injustices inside Indian households.” It’s for an online collection that may quickly stream on JioHotstar.
Chiraiya teaser tackles marital rape
The teaser of Chiraiya opens with a glimpse of a marriage, as a younger bride, Pooja, enters a brand new section of her life with hopes for a brighter future. Just for a haunting twist, the bride is proven in a traumatised state on the terrace, with tears silently rolling down her face and visual harm marks on her physique. Divya asks within the teaser, “That is my query to society. Is it not a criminal offense if a husband forces himself on a spouse after marriage?”
“Behind all this celebration lies a fact nobody needs to call. Chiraiya raises a troublesome however obligatory query to society: If a husband forces himself on a girl after marriage, does it cease being a criminal offense simply because they’re married? Yeh sawaal hai samaaj se. As a result of marriage is just not a license, and silence is just not consent,” states the official synopsis, as per a press launch.
Divya Dutta on Chiraiya net collection
Talking in regards to the upcoming net collection, actor Divya opened up about how she ended up confronting the uncomfortable fact about relationships.
“Whereas dwelling with this character in Chiraiya, I discovered myself continuously confronting an uncomfortable fact: how usually we silence ourselves within the title of preserving relationships, within the title of retaining the peace. This story pressured me to mirror on how simply marriage is assumed to be an area of unquestioned consent, and the way sacrifice is romanticised to the purpose the place ache turns into invisible,” Divya stated in a press launch.
She added, “Once you witness somebody you like being diminished or wronged, do you keep quiet to guard what exists, or do you danger the whole lot to guard what is correct? There isn’t a straightforward reply, and maybe that’s what makes it so deeply unsettling. I hope when individuals expertise this story, they do not simply watch it, they really feel it and maybe, in some quiet method, recognise truths we frequently hesitate to call.”
Directed by Shashant Shah and produced by SVF Leisure, Chiraiya options an ensemble solid together with Sanjay Mishra, Siddharth Shaw, Prasanna Bisht, Faisal Rashid, Tinnu Anand, Sarita Joshi, and others. The net collection will quickly premiere on JioHotstar; a launch date has but to be introduced.