For years, Manish Mundra was content backing films that resonated with him &mdash; from <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/bollywood-news/article/vicky-kaushal-richa-chadha-celebrate-7-years-of-masaan-23237548" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Masaan</a> (2015), to Newton (2017) and Kaamyaab (2020). With Siya, however, he felt the urge to wield the directorial baton and tell the story exactly as he had envisioned it.
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The Pooja Pandey and Vineet Kumar Singh-starrer takes an unflinching look at the trauma that rape survivors endure, highlighting the apathy with which the law enforcement agencies in India treat these cases. &ldquo;What you read and come across in society leaves an impact on you. Some of the rape cases that happened across our country in the past two-three years triggered me, and I thought of going deeper into them. Personally, I realised there is a pattern &mdash; if a case is in Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar or <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/congress-chief-sonia-gandhi-seeks-written-report-on-rajasthan-political-crisis-23247669" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Rajasthan</a>, it becomes [a tussle] of the powerful versus the less empowered. It&rsquo;s not about caste or creed, but about power,&rdquo; says the director, who then centred his story on the rape survivor and her family&rsquo;s fight to seek justice.
Such a movie demands sensitivity. Mundra adds it is equally crucial to maintain a balanced approach. &ldquo;The biggest challenge is you can&rsquo;t become judgmental. You have to present the case in a balanced narrative. Every story has two sides. That&rsquo;s the challenge I faced. Writing scenes is easy, but having the actors enact them becomes difficult. The scenes stay with you.&rdquo;
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Siya director Mundra says biggest challenge is to have a balanced approach as he tells the story of a rape survivor’s pursuit for justice

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