The film, ‘Ghotul’, has already garnered support from leading cultural figures.
x‘Ghotul,’ a powerful short film that draws on indigenous Gond traditions to reimagine conversations around gender, sexuality, and equality for adolescents. The film aims to challenge taboos, inspire a dialogue, and affirm every girl's right to bodily autonomy, choice, and dignity.
Each year, 21 million girls around the world become pregnant, with over 11 million in India alone. And every week globally, 4,000 adolescent girls are infected with HIV. Despite these staggering realities, conversations around sexuality remain muted, and young girls continue to suffer from a lack of safe spaces, information, and agency. The result is a cycle of early marriage, intimate partner violence, and limited opportunities fo