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‘Unbelievable a woman could do so much for others’
Updated On: 20 August, 2023 08:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
Mumbai media institute professor’s biopic of slain nun Sister Rani Maria brings conversation back to hate crimes towards social workers
A scene from The Face of the Faceless, starring Malayali actor Vincy Aloshious as Sister Rani Maria Vattalil
The story of Sister Rani Maria Vattalil has been germinating with filmmaker Dr Shaison P Ouseph for over 15 years now. Ouseph is Associate Dean (Technical and Administration) and Head of Department for Film and Television at Xavier Institute of Communication (XIC). He first heard of Sr Maria, a Franciscan Clarist nun who originally hailed from Pulluvazhy in Kerala, when he was still studying to become a priest in a Claretian Congregation. This month, her biopic The Face of the Faceless, was screened at the YB Chavan Centre in Churchgate.
The late social reformer and activist was working for the cause of Bhil tribe, Dalit communities and landless labourers in Udaynagar, Madhya Pradesh, when on February 25, 1995, she was brutally stabbed 40 times on a bus from Udaynagar to Indore. She was only 41 , and was beatified in Indore in 2017. “But at the time, it was just an incident I had heard of... I didn’t think about pursuing it in any way,” recalls Ouseph, over a call from Chicago.
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