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Priya’s Shakti is India’s first augmented reality(AR) comic book and was launched in 2014. The graphic novel or comic book tells the<br />

story of Priya, a villager from India who is gang raped by men in her village. After facing fierce shaming by the villagers, Priya flees<br />

to the forest to end her life. But the Goddess Parvati sees her plight and seeks to help her. She enters Priya’s body and confronts<br />

the men who raped Priya. How Priya champions the cause of women’s rights and transforms at least her own village - is the story<br />

of Priya’s Shakti (Shakti=power).<br />

INTERNATIONAL CINEMA <strong>IFFI</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

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