KOCHI: A few girls were at a restaurant after college. They were talking excitedly over something. A girl in the group notices a guy in another group in the restaurant watching her. He was leering at her. Ten minutes of ordeal under the sleazy eyes, girl, all upset now, stomps out of the place. This might have happened to some of us or someone we know at some point in time.
Building a story on the same premise and to make men in the society aware of such heinous things, Kochi-based Benjith Baby has made a short film Sorry. Set in the backdrop of Kochi, the film delves into the social issue in the background of a brother-sister relationship.
In the film, a brother and his sister go to a restaurant in an evening. The girl is leered at by a man in the restaurant. Seeing this, her brother reacts violently only to be given a heartbreaking reminder that he too had eve teased another woman at a different occasion. “What we try to convey with our film is that a girl you leer at or eve-tease is another man’s sister. The same thing or worse can happen to your sister too,” says Benjith, the director of the film.
The film has taken up the issue of intrusion of space faced by women especially. “The film gives an awareness that both men and women should react to such situations. And that violence is not the way to tackle such people,” says the director.
Sorry, released in Youtube on July 1, has garnered positive reviews. It was on Youtube Trending within a week of release. It has attained more than 1,38,600 times. ‘Sorry’ has Mathukutty, Nayana Anil, Aneesha Ummer and Benjith donning the roles of the main characters.