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HBO Documentary: Pink Sarees
This no-frills documentary follows Sampat as she mediates on behalf of the desperate women who show up at her charity home—though “mediate” is perhaps too delicate a term for her strong-arm tactics. Each of the situations is, according to Sampat, “worse than the last”: a pregnant woman’s higher-caste boyfriend won’t marry her; a barely-teenage girl divorces her husband in order to be with her boyfriend, but he changes his mind because she is an untouchable; a woman who runs away from home because her father-in-law has been raping her. Sampat intervenes when there’s no other recourse, stepping in to negotiate peace agreements between women and their in-laws. She has little respect for personal boundaries, telling perfect strangers how to manage their families and encouraging young people to rebel against oppressive caste and gender traditions. Brazen and assertive, Sampat is just the kind of larger-than-life figure who makes an ideal subject for a documentary.
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