READ ALSO:

BBC ignores ban, telecasts Nirbhaya documentary 'India's Daughter'

Leslee Udwin (R), director of the documentary 'India's Daughter' alongside her co-producer TV journalist Dibang (L) in New Delhi on March 3, 2015. (TOI photo: Chandan Khanna)

READ ALSO:

Nirbhaya film, welcomed everywhere, except India

READ ALSO:

Documentary on Nirbhaya goes viral, govt slammed for censorship

NEW DELHI: Four days after it was shown in Agra's Rup Dhanu Village, India's Daughter , a BBC documentary on the Nirbhaya gang rape , reached the slum where four of the convicts in the case used to live.On Thursday evening, about 50 residents of Ravidas Camp in RK Puram watched it on a portable screen . With the film banned in India, people were apprehensive and two men in the audience had even covered their faces, but they all seemed touched by it and some of the women had tears in their eyes.Ketan Dixit, an activist working with an NGO, Stop Acid Attacks, had set up a projector at the end of a lane to show the documentary. "People were scared, and some were peeping from their windows not to be caught watching it," said Dixit, an independent documentary maker.Women in the audience said speedy justice is necessary for the camp to shake off the stigma. "When they are accepting they did it, hang them. We will also be at peace as the media glare that we've been under since December 2012 will end," said Phoolmati, a resident.Many women were outraged over advocate A P Sharma's comments. "If men change their mentality, women will be safe. It's amazing to see so-called educated men talk like this. We don't think like him (Mukesh Singh, a convict) though we have never been to school," said a woman.Some in the audience sent their daughters home when Mukesh started narrating how his accomplices had savaged Nirbhaya on the bus.Dixit wanted the parents of the three convicts to watch the film but they were not home. "On Wednesday we went to the camp to let the parents know about our plans. People told us they had left."The activists have plans to screen the documentary in other parts of the city, especially slums. Dixit said it's a "mark of protest against the ban".Although the documentary was in English, volunteers translated the voice-over in Hindi. Boys skipped their game of cricket to watch the film from rooftops and windows. "Mukesh bhaiyya used to play cricket with us. Now, he is in the movie but as a villain," said one of them.