The BBC Documentary, The Midwife's Confession, begins with journalist Amitabh Parashar, meeting a cluster of men in Dumar, Bihar, who have found a newborn baby girl abandoned by a roadside bush, likely due to the child's gender.

As for Parashar, he remembers how, thirty years ago, he shot midwives who confessed to killing newborn girls in front of the camera, a chilling act driven by similar gender prejudice.

It was Anila Kumari, a field worker with an NGO, who took action against such crimes of female infanticide. For that, she convinced the midwives to take the newborn to her, and she arranged an adoption for them instead of death.

These crimes were never caught because the midwives carried them out at the behest of the family members of the newborn. Thus, no one was there to report these reprehensible acts.

This creates a dilemma, whether the real culprits in the whole committed are the people who commit the crimes or the society reveals that the first time she was killed, she couldn't eat for fifteen days and could even hear the cries and screams of the newborn at night.

In these confessions, we are at an emotional crossroads between individual guilt and societal pressure.

The Midwife's Confession takes a dramatic turn when Parashar visits one of the survivors, Monica, and takes her to meet Anila and Siro who saved her.

Moments created during these encounters are emotional and profoundly moving. It highlights the impact of how acts of kindness from the past can have a fruitful impact on the weight of the lives they changed.

While these heartfelt meetings are portrayed with a melodramatic tendency to widen audience appeal, the conclusion is a little cut short. It did not achieve closure and arouse the catharsis for which it had been preparing us throughout.

The Midwife's Confession deserves to be watched as it addresses a social evil that continues to plague our society and stubbornly refuses to disappear.

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