Free Outgoing

Just one text message. That’s all it took for Deepa to be hated by the nation.

When a well-behaved Indian girl is filmed having sex in her classroom, the video clip spreads like a virus. Transmitted from person to person and across the globe it infects firstly the local community and then seemingly the entire world with a burning moral outrage.

Free Outgoing, by Anupama Chandrasekhar, sets the rampant technology of the modern world against the conservatism of an ancient culture. Indhu Rubasingham directs.