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The lawsuit of the 26-year-old veterinary doctor who was sexually assaulted and murdered successful November 2019 is inactive caller successful the minds of radical successful Hyderabad and Telangana. The incidental triggered nationwide outrage and successful the days that followed, an alleged brushwood sidesplitting of the 4 accused besides sparked debates. For each specified lawsuit that makes headlines, respective others stay unnoticed. Silent Screams: The Lost Girls of Telangana, a 57-minute existent transgression documentary streaming connected Sun Nxt, presents 3 specified cases. Beyond the postulation of facts and the constabulary procedures, the documentary shows the affectional turmoil of the families of the victims.
Silent Screams begins with a voiceover by actor-musician Shruti Haasan. The lines written by shaper Pranav Pingle Reddy encapsulates the vulnerability of women arsenic they spell astir their regular lives, carrying the unseen value inherited from the generations earlier them.
The documentary is the enactment of Hyderabad-based Mirage Media, which earlier produced Occupied, a warfare documentary that explored Palestinian creation and taste resistance, and Qubool Hai? a web bid connected kid marriages successful Hyderabad.
Produced by Pranav Pingle Reddy, Silent Screams is directed by Arvind Menon, who edited Occupied and Qubool Hai? In a premix of English, Telugu and Hindi, the movie documents, done the lens of empathy, stories of atrocities against women successful Asifabad, Warangal and Nalgonda districts of Telangana.
The 3 cases from agrarian Telangana are juxtaposed against the 2019 lawsuit successful Hyderabad, drafting viewers’ attraction to unit against women crossed societal and economical strata.
“Silent Screams involved 3 years of research,” says Pranav. After Occupied, helium wanted to contiguous stories person to his roots, successful Telangana. The probe squad that included Arvind Achanta, Vibhu Yadati, Hemanth Kumar, Prabhu Kumar Lakumala, Yeshwant Mocherla, Lalitha Priya Alamuri, Sam Menuhin and Srikanth, spoke to journalists, constabulary officials and societal workers, compiling much than 100 stories. “It was pugnacious to take which stories to narrate,” recalls Pranav.
The squad chose stories that they felt would resonate with viewers from immoderate portion of the country. “Once the families were convinced that we were not retired to sensationalise their cases, they were forthcoming to stock their stories. The constabulary were besides unfastened to answering pugnacious questions,” helium adds.
One communicative involves 9 murders aft which a young pistillate is near to look the realities of beingness without her family. The movie squad traced her to Delhi, and was moved by her willingness to recount her story. “When radical spot us, it is our work to enactment distant their stories with conviction,” says Pranav. A communal thread crossed these cases was the misuse of the spot and goodwill the victims and families had placed successful those astir them.
Since Mirage Media besides works connected commercialized projects for firm entities, from clip to time, the accumulation location invested the net from those projects towards the documentary. “Whenever funds travel in, we would enactment connected station production. We were determined to implicit the documentary adjacent if it did not look lucrative to integer platforms astatine first. In the agelong tally erstwhile we marque profits, we program to stock it with the families of the victims,” Pranav explains.
Shruti Haasan coming connected committee has helped the documentary get noticed aft it began streaming recently. Pranav says, “Her dependable has helped amplify the stories of respective women and their families who are silently screaming for justice. We anticipation this movie would promote others to narrate lesser-known stories.”
(Silent Screams: The Lost Girls of Telangana streams connected Sun Nxt. It volition besides beryllium screened arsenic portion of the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2026 connected January 26; 3.45pm, astatine District 150, Sattva Knowledge City.)
