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...best Indian films in Toronto explored the pain of girls growing up: one escaping her awful destiny, another finding her troubled heritage. Buddhadeb Dasgupta's A Tale of a Naughty Girl is set in rural Bengal in 1969, the summer of the moon landing, but the feudal culture it defines could be today's?or that of hundreds of years ago. Lati, a pretty 14-year-old, hopes to slip out of an arranged marriage with an old goat, thinking it the worst of all possible worlds, while village women in the sex trade speak of their jobs with...
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