Based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, ‘Trishna’ tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father’s hotel business. After an accident destroys her father’s Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the conflicting pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation, urbanisation and, above all, education. Trishna’s tragedy is that she is torn between the traditions of her family life and the dreams and ambitions that her education has given her.
A young woman tells a man that she had been impregnated by him but had gotten an abortion. A group of young men tease another man about his having been involved with multiple women
Explicit sex scenes
Nonconsensual sex
violence
killing and suicide scenes
blood
profanity
2 mild obscenities, 5 religious exclamations
alcohol
We see men and women smoking hash cigarettes. A man has a beer served to him, men and women drink beer, a man appears very hung over, and men and women drink alcohol at parties. A man smokes a cigarette, and we see a man smoking cigarettes on multiple occasions.
