(Out)caste

A film by Shilpi Shikha Agrawal

DIRECTED BY

Shilpi Shikha Agrawal

WRITTEN BY

Shilpi Shikha Agrawal

PRODUCED BY

Elena Aksenova

CAST

Aurea Jolly, Nandini Minocha, Deepti Gupta

SYNOPSIS

Dasi, a Dalit (“untouchable”) woman, dehydrates while manual scavenging, emptying dry non-flushing outdoor toilets for upper caste villagers. This leaves Amrita, her 11-year-old daughter, to finish this work and pick up where her mother left off.

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