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Badha: Possession (2006)
Country: India
Language: Marathi
Year: 2006
Color/BW: COLOR
Category: Feature Film
Genre: Drama
Description
Badha.. the possession.. A battle between fear and faith.
A shepherd village on the barren land that witnesses this battle with detached eyes. An only son in the family disappears. A desperate grandmother who needs a boy in the family to attain salvation after death. The younger daughter in law of the family who cannot share the fear and pain that she is facing at the hands of her husband who refuses to consummate the marriage.. and begins the play of witch hunting against an innocent wife of a dalit soldier serving at the border. She is living alone, without a child after the death of her old father in law and is accused of casting spell on the children with the power of black magic.. The headman of the village ready to manipulate the subtle power politics between the two communities in the village.. the ripple created by the older village woman with her faith in the instinct of hope and compassion, that could break the stagnated poisoned water of fear.
