Call It Slut (India)

Call it Slut is a miniature portrait of a wickedly outrageous and compassionate transgender woman who fearlessly takes on patriarchal attitudes and pokes fun at middle class morality.

Lakshmi not only transcends sexual boundaries, she also straddles varied roles and inhabits different subcultures with deceptive ease.

Alumni of Jamia Mass Communication Research Centre, New Delhi and Film and Television Institute of India, Nishtha Jain works and lives in Mumbai. From her first film City of Photos in 2004 to Gulabi Gang in 2012, it has been a time for passionate engagement with people’s lives and issues of filmmaking.Her films have been shown extensively in international film festivals. They have won several prestigious awards and been broadcast on international TV networks and regularly shown in schoolsand colleges in India and abroad.