Trishna (2011 film)

Trishna is a 2011 BritishSwedishIndian drama film, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom, and starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed. The story is a loose adaptation of Thomas Hardys novel Tess of the dUrbervilles. It is Winterbottoms third Hardy adaptation, after Jude and The Claim. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival onSeptember 2011, and after some further festival appearances it saw its first cinema release in the United Kingdom and Ireland onMarch 2012.

After an accident destroys her fathers Jeep and leaves her family without the means to support themselves, Trishna, approached with an offer of employment from Jay, accepts and begins her work beneath him.Jay develops feelings for Trishna, expressing them through special treatment and gifts. She is overwhelmed by his generosity and his position of power, and does not know how to respond. After a night out with friends, Jay tracks her down and rescues her from the unwanted and escalating attentions of two men on the street. However, instead of taking her back to the servant quarters of the hotel, he stops in a wooded area and makes an advance. He rapes her, and she comes back from their encounter crying heavily. She flees the next morning back to her family. An unwanted pregnancy results from the rape, and Trishna has an abortion, hoping to put the entire episode behind her and continue in her family as if shed never left. However, her fathers shame at her pregnancy and the familys need for income means that she is sent to work for her aunt and uncle, serving her bedbound aunt and also working in the small factory her uncle runs. To her dismay, Jay tracks her down again and seems surprised that she has not tried to contact him due to his own abusive, selfindulgent tendencies, he views the rape as a consensual sexual experience. He offers her the opportunity to be his livein girlfriend in Mumbai, and Trishna chooses to go with him, escaping the drudgery of factory work to start life again with Jay in the city. ........

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