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TNN |11th August 2019

Son Rise. Set in Haryana, the film follows three ordinary men working towards gender inequality in the rural North.

“Films are a powerful means to tell a story, and the story that Vibha tells in ‘Son Rise’ is one that needs to be told,” said Maher Nasser, Commissioner-General of the United Nations at Expo 2020 and the Director of Outreach in the United Nations Department of Global Communications.

‘Son Rise’ not only shines a spotlight on an issue that societies prefer to hide, it provides hope through the stories of heroes who stood up for what they saw as right and just and by doing that, they created positive change. And that is a beautiful story to tell,” he added.

NEW YORK: National Award-winning documentary “Son Rise” and Geetu Mohandas-directed “Moothon” were among the films that took home the big honours at the 20th New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), which switched to a virtual edition this year amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

TNN | Jan 21, 2019, 18:10 IST

A screening of filmmaker Vibha Bakshi’s documentary ‘Son Rise’ was recently organised at IHC in Delhi, recently. The screening was hosted by the UN Women under campaign in collaboration with FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO).

Feb 28, 2020

The National Crime Record Bureau revealed in 2016 that the highest number of gang rapes was reported in Haryana. The state, which is already infamous for its skewed sex ratio, has seen no let-up in the cases of gender-based violence. Yet, in Vibha Bakshi’s Son Rise, the state finds its heroes in a handful of men, who are trying to break the shackles of patriarchy and standing up for women rights.

JANUARY 23, 2019 00:00

Vibha Bakshi’s “Son Rise” shows a ray of hope in the fight for gender equality in Haryana

PTI |  February 20, 2019 19:10 IST

Mumbai, Feb 20 (PTI) National Award winning filmmaker Vibha Bakshi has collaborated with United Nations Women for her next film “Son Rise”, which talks about gender equality.

PTI |  February 20, 2019 19:10 IST

“Daughters of Mother India” director Vibha Bakshi says her latest documentary film “Son Rise”, set in Haryana, depicts men as heroes. The film, which touches upon the gender rights issue, was screened here on Tuesday. The screening was held as the Ficci Ladies Organisation (FLO) extended support to the UN #HeForShe campaign.

Mumbai Mirror

The unveiling of documentary filmmaker Vibha Bakshi’s newest SonRise was no ordinary affair. On Friday, the film was launched by Yuri Afanasiev, head of the United Nations’ Delhi operations, and Nishtha Satyam, UN Women Deputy Country Representative.

IANS  |  New Delhi Last Updated at January 15, 2019 18:55 IST

“Daughters of Mother India” director Vibha Bakshi says her latest documentary film “Son Rise”, set in Haryana, depicts men as heroes.

Ahmedabad Mirror | Updated: Dec 4, 2019

Celebrated filmmaker and producer, Vibha Bakshi is in the city to showcase her film, Son Rise, which won this year’s National Award in Best Film (non-feature) and Best Editing (non-feature) category. 

Fariha Farooqui, DNA

The partnership was unveiled at a conference called ‘WeUNite’, which explored skill development and women entrepreneurship, and was attended by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at Colaba on Tuesday.

MANISHA PRADHAN – February 21, 201

At the premier of national award winning filmmaker, Vibha Bakshi’s Son Rise, the UN Under-Secretary General Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka who unveiled the film, rightly said,“The beautiful thing about the art is that it reflects our thoughts, it changes our minds, it demonstrates our foolishness, it brings tears into our eyes but it leaves us with profound opportunity to reflect. The UN Women is very proud to be associated with Son Rise and United Nations is proud to be a part of this journey.”

IANS  |  New Delhi | Published: November 23, 2018

The special event, under UN Secretary General’s UNiTE campaign, has utilized the colour orange to represent a brighter future, free from violence against women and girls, as a unifying theme running through its global activities.

National Award-winning filmmaker and producer, Vibha Bakshi, introduced the teaser of her documentary movie SON RISE. 

New Delhi, Nov 28 (UNI) The annual ’16 days of Activism’ against gender-based violence was flagged off on Thursday by Haryana Police and the Delhi Police, with the screening of the National Award winning film ‘Son Rise’ for more than 10,000 police officers at the Haryana Police Academy and the Delhi Police Training Center.

Apart from extending its support to the United Nations ‘HeForShe’ campaign, FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) has also taken the initiative to back Vibha Bakshi’s latest documentary film ‘Son Rise’.

The film which was premiered on January 15, at India Habitat Centre has been supported by UN Women as part of the ‘HeForShe’ campaign.

Culture |  05 Aug 2020

Lifestyle Asia India talks to National Award-winning director Vibha Bakshi about her film, ‘Son Rise‘, which has won the Best Feature Documentary at the 20th New York Indian Film Festival, America’s oldest and largest Indian film festival.

Hind Alowais, Vibha Bakshi spearheading pledge expected to be taken by over 50 nations

Mumbai, Feb 20 (UNI)

UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, unveiled the premiere of National award winning film director and producer Vibha Bakshi’s film ‘Son Rise’, here on Wednesday.

Monday, 10 December 2018 | Team Viva

Filmmaker Vibha Bakshi tells Team Viva how ordinary men are taking on the extraordinary fight to change the narrative on masculinity in Haryana

Why women should take charge of their finances is a conversation which needs to take centre stage. With more and more women choosing to remain in the workforce, SheThePeople Women Writer’s Fest along with partners CITI decided to have a panel discussion on “Why Women Should Talk Money”.

by : ETHEL DA COSTA 

“A film cannot solve all the problems, but can certainly open a dialogue,” says Vibha Bakshi about her new film SON RISE, and hopes that involvement of men in gender issues is a step in the right direction.

by : ETHEL DA COSTA 

Mumbai recently witnessed a phenomenal response at the premiere of SON RISE, Vibha’s second film unveiled by United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. It was a proud moment.

Fariha Farooqui, DNA

Documentary filmmaker Vibha Bakshi, who made the National Award winning Daughters of Mother India  (DOMI)  in 2015 in the aftermath of the gruesome 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape, is on the verge of releasing the sequel titled Son Rise. 

Written By Radhika Sarkar | Mumbai | Published: November 23, 2018

Filmmaker Vibha Bakshi is a National Award-winning filmmaker who has conferred the honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters due to her work as a journalist and filmmaker from the Boston University. Bakshi has previously filmed ‘Daughters of Mother India’ based out of the country, which was a winner at the National Film Award from the then President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. As per the Global Creative Index, her film ‘Daughters of Mother India’ was the most awarded social campaign in the world. 

By Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Published: November 27, 2018

The special event, under UN Secretary General’s UNiTE campaign, has utilized the colour orange to represent a brighter future, free from violence against women and girls, as a unifying theme running through its global activities.

National Award-winning filmmaker and producer, Vibha Bakshi, introduced the teaser of her documentary movie SON RISE. 

Fariha Farooqui, DNA

After producing a 45-minute documentary on violence against women, Mumbai-based filmmaker Vibha Bakshi is set to release another documentary in March next year. The documentary is about real heroes who fought against such violence in rural areas of the country.

Written by Ishita Sengupta |November 9, 2020

When filmmaker and former journalist Vibha Bakshi started working on the documentary Son Rise — a harrowing reportage on female infanticide in Haryana and its adjoining areas — residents there were hesitant to speak. In spite of its genre, the documentary’s fate turned out to be rather cinematic as things suddenly changed for worse and then for the better. 

New Zealand Pavilion, India Pavilion, United Nations at Expo and Women’s Pavilion lead global call to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment in support of UN Women’s ‘Orange the World’ initiative

JUNE 30, 2021

The Festival of Feature and Television Films of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Member States is being held from June 29 to July 2 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan

CE Features | 13th August 2019

Set in Haryana, the film follows three ordinary men working towards gender equality in the rural North

Nov 24, 2018 | HT Correspondent 

Upcoming documentary ‘Son Rise’ by national award winning filmmaker Vibha Bakshi is set in the land of khap panchayat with local men as its heroes. A teaser of the film was screened in New Delhi at the United Nations office on Friday.

Namrata Joshi  |  MUMBAI , APRIL 25, 2019

Documentary highlights ordinary men’s fight to bring change in status of women

20 Nov 2019

National Award winning film director and producer, Vibha Bakshi will be screening her film, ‘Son Rise’ at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which throws light on the gender equality issue. A former business reporter for CNBC and founding team member for CNBC (India), Vibha feels proud that ‘Son Rise’ was selected by the United Nations as the face of the HeForShe movement in India.

Pune  |  October 5, 2019

For the first time in Pune, Leadership of over 75 Information Technology (IT) and other companies from across India came together for a first-of- its kind-special screening of this year’s National Award winning film ‘SON RISE’ – BEST FILM (non feature), a powerful gender rights film by award winning filmmaker, Vibha Bakshi. The film focuses on ordinary men doing the ‘extraordinary’ in the fight for gender equality and gender justice.

By Priyanka Bhadani |  July 20, 2019

Vibha Bakshi’s take on Haryana’s skewed sex ratio and crimes against women

By Isabelle Bonsignour

Thursday, April 25, in two auditoriums of the National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai, a large audience was able to watch a documentary, Son Rise, praising the courage of men and women who have testified about the horrors practiced in their villages in the state of Haryana to girls and women. The film is supported by United Nations Women and HeForShe, the United Nations global solidarity movement for gender equality. The director Vibha Bakshi explained to the audience the reasons that led her to make this documentary and her hopes. The screening was organized by several consulates general in Bombay, led by the wife of the Consul General of New Zealand. Sonia Barbry, Consul General of France, joined this action with enthusiasm.

Apeksha Mishra  |  Published – 22-November-2018

Jack Dorsey, Founder & CEO, Twitter; and Maya Hari, VP & MD, Twitter Asia Pacific; talk about Twitter being a gender-neutral platform at the Asian Women in Leadership Summit 2018

Heer Kothari |  MUMBAI , MAY 5, 2019

It was a hot summer day, where burning issues such as female foeticide and gender ratio came to the fore. Vibha Bakshi’s Rising Son showcased the unprecedented need for saving the girl child for the future. The screening was co-hosted by UN Women, the Films Division and Sonia Hays, wife of New Zealand Consul General and Vice-Dean of the Consular Corps, Ralph Hays, at the recently opened Museum of Indian Cinema, Peddar Road.

Sachin Murdeshwar | Published on February 20, 2019

Mumbai  : Today, Mumbai witnessed a phenomenal response at the Premiere of SON RISE, by Vibha Bakshi, National award winning film Director and Producer. The film was unveiled by United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.

Isha Gupta  |  New Delhi January 16, 2019UPDATED: January 16, 2019 04:08 IST

he film is based on the land of khap panchayat in Haryana, where ordinary men have taken on the ‘extraordinary’ fight to change the narrative of gender equality.

 Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: November 24, 2018

During the dialogue on changing the narrative on gender equality and ending violence against women, National award-winning filmmaker and producer Vibha Bakshi introduced the teaser of her upcoming ‘Son Rise’ 

“Daughters of Mother India” director Vibha Bakshi says her latest documentary film “Son Rise”, set in Haryana, depicts men as heroes.