Indian Student Alliance (ISA) plans to go to a movie sometime in the next few weeks on a Tuesday to see a movie. The movie will not be decided until arriving at the theater. So far the choices are “The Duff” and “Cinderella” The purpose for the event is a club-bonding experience before many of the club members and officers graduate in May.

Nida Khan, ISA club president and senior, said, “I’m only free over the weekdays and I heard it’s cheaper on Tuesdays.”

Currently, Khan is still working out the plans, so she has yet to bring her idea to ISA Sponsor and teacher Paige Wehr.

One of the topics likely to be discussed, before or after the movie, Khan said is a recent documentary that was banned by the Indian government. However, not everyone agrees with this idea.

ISA member and junior Mariam Bari said, “I don’t think that watching a movie unrelated to the documentary is a good way to discuss it. It takes away from the severity of the situation and turns into hangoiut out instead of something productive.”

The documentary was released by BBC and covers the gang rape that happened in Delhi, India in 2012. A 23-year-old woman was beaten and gang raped a woman and her friend was beaten. Six men, including the driver of the bus where the crime occurred were involved. The woman died thirteen days later. The government believes the documentary might cause protests.

“It should,” Khan said.  “Some of them are really uneducated and it’s shameful some of the things they said in that documentary. The defense attorney for the rapists said something like, you can probably see it at my twitter at @thenidakhan, but he said something like ‘our society has no place for women.’ And basically he said the girl who went out at 9 p.m. with her friend, she’s not a decent and modest girl if she goes out at 9 p.m. with one of her friends to watch a movie.”

Bari said, “The documentary does not worry me. However, the fact that it has been banned in India does worry me. By banning this video, the Indian government is turning a blind eye to the breaches of human rights occurring in the country. I would think the Indian government would want to protect its people and show them that they stand with the women of their country and give them solidarity by supporting this video.”