"Chellaponnu" means "lovely girl." This film quietly accompanies the everyday life of five women in today's Indian outback. Their everyday life far away from the up-and-coming metropolises is characterized by deep tradition, hard work and life in family structures. The film lets the audience participate in the everyday life of these women and gives them the opportunity to express themselves and be heard. What wishes do they have, what dreams? What is their everyday life like and to what extent do our clichéd ideas of the great backwardness of life in rural India apply? What they all have in common, however, is the desire to have value as a woman in society. Rose's narrative of life in the countryside in the 1960s accompanies the journey. She tells of Germany and her path to self-determination. A daring dialogue and very personal approach to the lives of women yesterday as well as today, here as well as there, which makes us forget the cultural and temporal differences and asks about the value of women in the world.
Rose's narrative of life in the countryside in the 1960s accompanies the journey. She tells of Germany and her path to self-determination. A daring dialogue and very personal approach to women's lives yesterday as well as today, here as well as there, which makes us forget the cultural and temporal differences and asks about the place of women in the world.