5.15.2021

Take It Back, Abdullah - B+

          Zara is a 30-year-old Muslim woman, beautiful and very successful. She is a London barrister on the fast track to a great future. But her Indian background and the expectations of her community and family force her into an arranged marriage. The stress and illogic of it all leads her to walk out on the marriage and resign from her career. She becomes a rape counselor and helps a deformed teenage girl initiate a case against four nice Muslim boys. She becomes a pariah and is humiliated in the tabloid press. The trial turns on a piece of late-surfacing video for a dramatic finale. The insights into this closed world where a woman could excel at the law and be expected to kow-tow to her new mother-in-law are frightening.

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