Director
Peter Allvin, who has high hopes on his film '
Pattarai
', which deals with women trafficking, says a lot of research has been done for the same. The production of the movie, which has
JD Chakravarthy
, Senthil, Renuka and Ratsasan fame Vinod Sagar playing crucial roles, was completed in over 70 days.
Ask the filmmaker why he took more than two months’ time to film a low-budget project, Peter, who also produced the flick, explains, “I had to collect a lot of materials to study the subject in depth. I travelled a lot and interacted with many people to know about flesh trade — how it happens, the method of operating it, and so on. Though it is a city-based subject, it has global relevance. The stories I heard about under-18 girls hailing from Maharashtra are heart-wrenching. Many of them are brought up in such a way that they don’t find being part of flesh trade as a wrong practice. Pay them a little more than just `500, and they are ready to do anything for you.”
Peter informs that there is an organised network behind the girls missing in Chennai landing up Mumbai in no time. He says, “After being kidnapped, they are kept in secret places without food for days if they refuse to be a sex slave, following which they are physically attacked. The three terrible things controlled by mafia across the world are drugs, arms and ammunition, and women trafficking. While several countries are trying to deal with the first two cases in several possible ways, the third issue hardly gets attention. It is said `500 crores is the total annual turnover in India from women trafficking. Most of us think that this doesn’t happen to girls in our family, but the fact is that every single girl is at risk.”
According to Peter, unlike other movies which dealt with this subject, he has ensured that the topic has been touched upon in a respectful way. He adds, “I haven’t used any kuthu song in the film, and there aren’t any close-up shots which highlight the navel and cleavage of girls.”
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