Pratighatana

Let us get one thing one of the way first. Cause-related films work out best when there is one issue to be worked at, and when the victims actually resemble living creatures, and when those protagonists don't try to shove their ideology down the viewers' throats willy-nilly.

Pratighatana, however, stands entirely on the premise that a woman who has been raped is immediately rendered paralised until the screams of an annoyingly strident reporter of the female variety shake her into action, a.k.a. going from sitting in a corner and crying, to standing in front of the media and var....