Blood on My Hands (2006)

The film "Blood on my Hands" deals with the issues of puberty and sexuality of women, a subject which is treaded upon very carefully in the Indian society. The film makers attempt to put together a montage of viewpoints, those of men and women, about their ideas of the hush hush term 'period' and the immense weight the word carries in a woman's context. In a culture which treats menstruating women in the same manner that it treats a patient with a highly contagious disease, shies away from open discussions about sexual organs and runs away from sex education, needs to be sensitized to the problems faced by the youth. In the wake of recent events in India, the movie makes a pertinent point and gives in insight into why something as natural and obvious as a woman's coming of age, is not an acceptable fact in the society.