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Leslee Udwin

HARDtalk: Leslee Udwin

20/04/2015 GMT

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Zeinab Badawi meets Leslee Udwin, director of controversial documentary 'India's Daughter'

"India's Daughter", a documentary about the gang rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012, caused huge controversy. HARDtalk meets the film's director, Leslee Udwin.

The brutal gang rape and murder of a student on a bus in Delhi in 2012 provoked widespread shock and outrage and put the spotlight on violence against women in India. A recent documentary about it called 'India's Daughter' has provoked huge controversy. It featured an interview with one of the five convicted rapists expressing no remorse and blamed the victim for fighting back. The Delhi government banned the film in India. HARDtalk talks to the documentary's director, Leslee Udwin and asks her if her film was sensationalist.

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