The World Before Her (2012)
Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls. The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the country's modern history.
- Date of release
- 2012-03-11
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Nisha Pahuja
Casting
- Pooja Chopra — Herself
- Ankita Shorey — Herself
- Prachi Trivedi — Herself
- Marc Robinson — Himself
- Manasvi Mamgai — Self
- Ruhi Singh — Self
Interesting facts
The World Before Her is a 2012 Canadian documentary film written and directed by Nisha Pahuja and produced by Toronto's Emmy Award winning Storyline Entertainment. The film explores the complex and conflicting environment for young girls in India by profiling two young women participating in two very different types of training camp — Ruhi Singh, who aspires to become Miss India, and Prachi Trivedi, a Hindu nationalist with the Durga Vahini.
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