Cinema is often considered a medium that mirrors society, probably in an overtly dramatised manner. Everything in this world is hunky dory till it touches subjects like sexual assault and violence against women - probably not the best topics to be commercialised, but can work wonders to impart a message that can amplify progressive thinking. 

Thousands of movies are churned out every year, but very few move you, sometimes to tears when the subjects of women’s atrocities are documented in a sensitised manner. Amid the ongoing outrage of the horrific Kolkata rape and murder case, the Badlapur school case, and all those stories that were highlighted in the past couple of days, we look at how cinema reminded us of the cruelties endured by women take several forms.