Criticism
- The film is highly criticized by Arundhati Roy in her film review named 'The Great Indian Rape-Trick'.
- Karen Gabriel, Reading Rape: Sexual Difference, Representational Excess and Narrative Containment, in Manju Jain (ed.) Narratives of Indian Cinema, New Delhi: Primus, 2009. Karen Gabriel
- See also Karen Gabriel, Melodrama and the Nation: The Sexual Economies of Mainstream Bombay Cinema (1970-2000), New Delhi: Kali/ Women Unlimited, 2010.
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