Credits- The World Before Her
Written and directed by: Nisha Pahuja
India Distributors: PVR Director’s Rare
India Release Date: June 6 in 5 cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata) in 17 screens
Censor certificate: A
Run time: 90 minutes

Presented By: Anurag Kashyap, Telefilm Canada and The Rogers Group Of Funds through the Theatrical Documentary Programme
Presented by: Kinosmith
Producers:Ed Barreveid, Cornelia Principe, Nisha Pahuja
Editor: David Kazala
DOP: Mrinal Desai, Derek Rogers
Original Music: Ken Myhr
Sound Recordist: Anita Kushwaha and Jason Milligan
Synopsis
The World Before Her shifts between the fascinating worlds of the Miss India pageant and a Hindu fundamentalist camp for girls. In one, Ruhi Singh is a small-town girl competing in Bombay to win the Miss India pageant—her ticket to stardom. In the other India, Prachi Trivedi is a young, militant leader at a camp for girls run by the Durga Vahini, the women’s wing of the VHP. Here she preaches violent resistance to Western culture, Christianity, and Islam.
Moving between these divergent realities, the film creates a critical, provocative portrait of the world’s largest democracy at a key transitional moment—and of two women who hope to shape its future. The film also features former Miss India Pooja Chopra, who was a near victim of female infanticide.