Umar Daraz

Pakistani Film

This story is dedicated to those daughters and sisters whose lives are ruined by the evil tradition of Haq Bakhshish, in which women are coerced into marrying the Quran to deny them their rightful inheritance. The Winner of 2000 Nigar Award for Best Punjabi Film.

A famous movie-maker, an all around family man, ventures into red-light district in order to find a new face for his future projects but loses his heart and everything he holds dear.

The film is yet another variation on the familiar rape and revenge theme (I Spit on Your Grave territory). This time around we are shown that the vengeful, vice-busting Cat-Beast is the result of a ghastly gang rape which ended up with her birth (five minutes later) in some dark cave in the woods one stormy, cursed night. Her mother died upon child birth and the helpless infant was taken in by a stealthy black cat who was roaming the forest that fateful night and decided to adopt a human infant. This is how the child grew to become the awesome Cat creature – a cheerful, overworked domestic maid servant by day and crime busting Super Cat-Beast by night with special powers.