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India Untouched
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India Untouched

111 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Untouchability was outlawed in India in 1950, but this film sets out to show how it still structures daily life, from village wells to temple doors. Director Stalin K. travels through eight states, filming Dalits barred from drawing water from the same source as higher-caste neighbors, separate cups kept for them at tea stalls, and segregated seating in schools. The film's argument is that caste prejudice is not confined to Hinduism: it follows communities into Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism, with interviews showing separate mosques, churches, and gurdwaras for Dalit converts. Village elders, local officials, and ordinary residents speak on camera, sometimes defending the divisions as tradition, sometimes describing the violence that enforces them. The camera lingers on the physical architecture of exclusion, the marked doorways, the distance kept at wells and cremation grounds, letting the images make the case without heavy narration. It is a grounded, on-the-ground record of a system that operates in plain sight rather than an abstract argument about history.