Anurag Kashyap's next film has a scene inspired by a real-life horrific incident of sex ragging

Anurag Kashyap's forthcoming directorial venture Gulal will relive the horrors of a shocking sex-oriented ragging incident at a medical college that shook the entire Karnataka state. Its tremors were also felt across the country as people from various quarters expressed their seething anger and disgust at the torturous act. 

In 2001, the country was astounded with the news that a girl and a boy were made to strip by senior students and locked in a room for three days when they refused to have sex at a medical college in Bijapur, Karnataka. They were reportedly not even provided food or water and the seniors kept peeping through the windows to see if the two ended up having intercourse.

Reports claimed that the girl was forced out of her hostel by some seniors and was then confined to a room with a first-year boy student. 11 students were apparently accused in the crime. 

"My film was written around 2001 and it is about student politics in colleges and shows how an idealistic revolution aimed at bringing out a noble result goes wrong when power-hungry people try to take command of the movement and corruption sets in," explains Anurag. "Several real incidents from college life and politics have inspired this film. There's one true college ragging incident that really bothered me. I was shocked to read that a boy and a girl were stripped naked by seniors at a college because they refused to have sex. It showed the degeneration. What disturbed me more was that these two kids were locked up in a room and people kept looking at them to see if they ended up making out to get out of their embarrassing situation. They stayed in that room for three days and were not even served food or water. It's inhuman, but a coarse reality from college life."

Prithwish Ganguly/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication