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    Payal SETHI 2016 India Fiction color 27min Hindi DCP
    Raisa lives with her Ammi and three younger sisters in Hyderabad's Old City. When Ammi promises her 13-year old daughter, Zainab, a marriage to a foreign businessman, Raisa decides to save her little sister at any cost. In an old custom that has found new roots among poor families in Muslim ghettos, rich patrons pay for an arrangement brokered by efficient agents, while a pliant cleric draws up both marriage and divorce contracts simultaneously, so that the businessman is free to end the sham union whenever he is ready to leave the city. Desperate to find a way out for Zainab, Raisa hatches a dangerous and improbable plan involving an archaic remedy that claims to restore a girl's virginity.

    Director

    Payal SETHI

    Payal studied film production at Vassar College and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She worked as an assistant to director Mira Nair on several of her productions. Payal made her award-winning directorial debut in 2010, and in 2012, Payal received the Asia Society's New Voices Fellowship for Screenwriters for Panther , a wildlife crime thriller. She is currently working on her debut feature, Ooty Queen .

    Director's Statement ▾

    Payal SETHI
    • 2016 Leeches《一夜血婚》
    • 2010 Grant St. Shaving Co.

    Director: Payal SETHI 
    Producer: Payal SETHI & Apoorva MARUR & Amartya SHAHANI
    Director of Photography:James DEMETRI
    Sound Designer: Udit DUSEJA
    ​Writers: Payal SETHI & Samir PATIL

    Payal Sethi

    payal1202@gmail.com

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