Angry Indian Goddesses (2015)

	Also Known As: 7 Göttinnen
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Pan Nalin
	Actors: Sarah-Jane Dias, Anushka Manchanda, Amrit Maghera, Sandhya Mridul, Pavleen Gujral, Rajshri Deshpande, Tannishtha Chatterjee
	Country: IND, D
	Genre: Comedy, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 02.06.2016, Schauburg
Synopsis: Their closest friend Freida (Dias) has invited a group of women: Madhurita (Manchanda), Joanna (Maghera), Suranjana (Mridul), Pamela (Gujral), Lakshmy (Deshpande), Nargis (Chatterjee) to her family home for a surprise announcement : she's getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette. A riotous roller coaster of girl bonding: friendships, breakups, make ups, screw ups, passion, devastation, hesitation, terrorization! Emotions run high and dry and hidden secrets surface.
Review: I wanted to watch this movie, not only because a part of the team was present in the theater, but because I was curious about the feminism in India, especially after the last years when the news from India were about men killing their wives because of jealousy or just because she wanted to split; news about men raping Indian women (e.g. the student) without being disturbed by the people around and killing her.  The introduction of the characters injects life into the movie from the beginning with a bit of show and drama. And then the story is more focused on the daily worries of these women, their joy in life, their expectations, their relationships with men. Their feminism is for women and not against men. As long as they are in the big house, everything is fine. As soon as they go out and are conftronted with men, then everything goes banana and the tension is clear because of the contrast with the life in the house.  The movie shows with help of contrasts in the storyline, in the music and in the colours that the expectations of these Indian women are encoutering strong resistances and the emancipation of women will not be an easy task. The acting of the whole group of women is great. I really felt their complicity and authenticity in all scenes, although their characters have very different origins. The colours are also great in the movie, in the house, in the garden, on the beach.
Rating: 8 /10