Sthal: The Indian film showing the bride's 'humiliation' in arranged marriage

Sthal is notable for the unflinching way it portrays a bride's experience in arranged marriage.

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But in India, where a majority of marriages are arranged, the process of match-making can feel like a passage through hell for a woman and her family.

That's the premise of Sthal: A Match, the 2023 gritty Marathi-language film that has won several prestigious awards at festivals in India and abroad. It is releasing for the first time in theatres in India on Friday.

Set in rural Maharashtra state, the film centres around Savita, a young woman striving for an education and a career in a patriarchal society, and the attempts by her father Daulatrao Wandhare - a poor cotton farmer - to find a good husband for his daughter.

"He wants a good price for his crop and a good match for his daughter," says director Jayant Digambar Somalkar.

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