To Kill a Tiger documentary review: Courageous story undone by superficial and over the top treatment [Video]

To Kill a Tiger, directed by Nisha Pahuja, first premiered in Canada in 2022 and became available in India on Netflix on Sunday – the same day as the presentation of the Oscars for which the film had got a nomination. The timing of its release in India on an OTT platform raises suspicions, as it was supposed to premiere much earlier.

Besides the flagrant violations of Indian law, the film has landed on ethical minefields on multiple fronts. While it may give some understanding to a larger audience of the travails of a family and survivor of child sexual violence navigating the criminal justice system, the treatment of these aspects is also very trite and superficial.

It is true that the real-world response to sexual violence currently is anywhere near marginally satisfactory. However, the context of a family from a marginalised tribe grappling with these odds, and against the background of the …