You can effortlessly guess by the movie name what it must be about. Every child has played Posham-pa when he or she was young. So, the story revolves around young children who were kidnapped and murdered by three women named Anjana and her two daughters Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde. In the reel, the characters are well portrayed by Sayani Gupta as the elder sister and Ragini Khanna being the younger one. Anjana the role persona by Mahie gill died after 2 years under trial due to illness.
In the years between 1990 and 1996, they kidnapped dozens of children and discarded them. Several FIRs were filed against them for theft and pickpocketing. Initially, for them this was the only source for their living but later, they started to kidnap children, used them to divert public attention, and disposed of them when they were no longer useful. The women were allegedly persuaded by their mother Anjana Gavit to snatch poor children and force them to beg and steal.
Generally, they used to target children who were under four as they were easy to abduct and the chances of being caught were less as these toddlers helped them to gain sympathy from the people. The children were taken to crowded places where one of them would try to pick people’s belongings. If the thief was caught, the person carrying it would either try to evoke sympathy through the child or create a distraction by hurting the child.
While the mother died shortly after her arrest, the Supreme Court gave the verdict of the death penalty to both the sisters through the Bombay High Court in 2004 for kidnapping 13 children and killing 5 in areas near Pune, Kohlapur, and Nashik in Maharashtra but some resources proclaim that 42 were kidnapped in total. Their mercy petition was rejected by the former president, Pranab Mukherjee, and the sisters are on death row now.
In the movie, their whole life was assessed by two documentarians for further analysis of the case. It was found that it wasn’t their fault. In fact, it was because of the way they were brought up and saw extreme poverty.
Their mother was kleptomaniac, due to which her marriage didn’t last long with her second husband who belonged to an army background, and at last, he abandoned them. After months, he remarried another woman and gave birth to a boy but he was affected by autism. Because of the extreme jealousy factor among the half-sisters and their mother he ended up being a victim. In this case, they were arrested and the crimes they carried out throughout these years, have since come to light.
The sisters confessed to also killing their step-brother under their mother’s instructions. The sisters led the investigators to their mother.
Many psychological and intense situations are delineated in the movie. It exhibits several conditions faced by elder sister like she had an addiction to pulling her hair and delusion that her mother is still alive which was not less than mental torture and because of these hallucinations, she ended her life by committing suicide. Also, she is shown as a rape survivor in the movie. The other sister came back from death’s door when she was injected with certain drugs that were taken by her mother.
Being a single parent, their mother struggled a lot when stealing became the necessity to survive. The theme is about nature versus nurture where even a small mistake and poor upbringing can lead you to complications, addictions, and serial killers. Consequently, the way you behave in front of your child can impact him or her in an unhealthy way. The child grasps knowledge first from their parents and then from anyone else.
Many questions emerged after watching this view. Who is the manipulator and who is innocent? Should the death penalty be given to the culprit knowing that the individual is suffering from some mental disorder? Or why do kids have to seek redemption for their parent's sin?
These are the questions that are too big to be answered so simply. There are many things that one needs to consider before this.
But what would your answer be to these questions? What’s your response to these events that you just read about? Or how did you feel when you read about those dreadful things that this trio did? Feel free to convey them down in the comment section…
Written by - Yashvi Jatoliya
Edited by - Chhavi Gupta
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