Sorry, I'm not a boy: Based on a true story of discrimination against gender and sexuality in lower caste India
Description
Gita's extraordinary story of courage and defiance.
But being from a lower caste and brought up by poor parents in a village, she is always up against one cultural/ social bias or another. She closely observes the social evils prevalent in the society like dowry, caste divide, opposition of studies in lower caste girls, early marriage of girls, difficulty in widow re-marriage, sexual exploitation but sticks to her well-determined path of becoming an educated girl. She discovers that she is a lesbian but has to undergo the pain of losing her best friend in an unhappy marriage over outdated customs.
In her depression Gita becomes a drug addict and loses all her money. When she goes to her employer, in the garb of helping her, he turns her into a prostitute. Stricken by guilt Gita overdoses on drugs and her life is saved by the doctors in the nick of time.
But being from a lower caste and brought up by poor parents in a village, she is always up against one cultural/ social bias or another. She closely observes the social evils prevalent in the society like dowry, caste divide, opposition of studies in lower caste girls, early marriage of girls, difficulty in widow re-marriage, sexual exploitation but sticks to her well-determined path of becoming an educated girl. She discovers that she is a lesbian but has to undergo the pain of losing her best friend in an unhappy marriage over outdated customs.
In her depression Gita becomes a drug addict and loses all her money. When she goes to her employer, in the garb of helping her, he turns her into a prostitute. Stricken by guilt Gita overdoses on drugs and her life is saved by the doctors in the nick of time.
