Daag (2017)

Women's bodies have historically been the unacknowledged casualties of war for too long. Rape and sexual abuses are not just a by-product of war but are used as a deliberate military strategy to perpetuate social control and redraw ethnic boundaries. Bangladesh's liberation war was no exception. During the war of liberation in 1971, Shila was an inhabitant of old part of Dhaka with her father. Her fiancé Zafar - a guerrilla freedom fighter - once storms into her place to inform her of an imminent guerrilla attack on the city in which he will take part. But as he poises to leave on the security ground of the family, Shila bemoaned him with her courage of feminine gravitas symbolising the role of women in the war of liberation. With Zafar's departure, hailstorm broke on her door with a gang of Pakistani collaborators who looked for the guerrilla fighter and murdered her father. Top notch of the gang was Khayer who took the opportunity of Shila's shocked vulnerability and raped her. The face and posture of Khayer stitched in her memory that took her to look for him for a vengeance. To her, the war was yet to be ended. Khayer, however, forgot all his misdeeds as he got married and swooped on her with habitual style of bestiality on the wedding night. Shila this time was prepared for her revenge.