Call It Slut

Director: Nishtha Jain
India | Hindi, English
2006 | 14min | Colour
Subtitles: English

Call it Slut is a miniature portrait of a wickedly outrageous and compassionate transgender woman who fearlessly takes on patriarchal attitudes and pokes fun at middle class morality. Lakshmi not only transcends sexual boundaries, she also straddles varied roles and inhabits different subcultures with deceptive ease.

Nishtha Jain

Alumni of Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi and Film and Television Institute of India, Nishtha Jain works and lives in Mumbai. From her first film City of Photos in 2004 to Gulabi Gang in 2012, it has been a time for passionate engagement with people’s lives and issues of filmmaking.Her films have been shown extensively in international film festivals. They have won several prestigious awards and been broadcast on international TV networks and regularly shown in schoolsand colleges in India and abroad.

Credits

Director: Nishtha Jain
Producer: Nishtha Jain
Screenwriter: Nishtha Jain, Smriti Nevatia
Cinematographer: Deepti Gupta
Editor: Vipin Sharma
Production Company: Raintree Films
Cast: Lakshmi Tripathi

Festival Appearances & Awards

Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, 2006
4th Independent South Asian Film Festival