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Amoli (2018)

Amoli poster
Original title
अमोली
Directed by
Jasmine Kaur Roy
Genre
documentary film
Country
India
Runtime
29 min
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This documentary examines the commercial sexual exploitation of children in India. It shares stories of young girls who are forced into sex work and shows their resilience.

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What happens

Amoli: Priceless is a 2018 English-Hindi documentary film on commercial sexual exploitation of children. The film is directed by Jasmine Kaur Roy and Avinash Roy and produced by Sameer Pitalwalla. The music was scored by Tajdar Junaid. Vidya Balan narrated the documentary. The narration for the film is in English while the interviewees speak in Hindi. The film was released in May 2018. The documentary was dubbed in several languages featuring the voices of: Rajkummar Rao (Hindi), Sachin Khedekar (Marathi), Jisshu Sengupta (Bengali) Nani (Telugu), Kamal Haasan (Tamil), and Puneeth Rajkumar (Kannada) lent their voices to the film. The film won the 66th National Film Award for Best Investigative Film. The jury citation for the award reads "For its gritty examination of why and how young girls are coerced into commercial sex work, destroying their lives and minds, and for depicting their courage to survive." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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